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Peace Accords for Angola

Year:1991 Type of document:Agreements ANSA:União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA) Country / Territory:Angola PDF:English

Comment: Also known as Bicesse Accords. Ceasefire Agreement, Article II.3 provides for release of all civilian and military prisoners, to be verified by the ICRC. Article II.6 prohibits the laying of mines, as well as acts of violence against civilians.

Layeha for the Mujahideen - 2006 Version

Year:2006 Type of document:Internal Rules and Regulations ANSA:Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan/Taliban (IEA) Country / Territory:Afghanistan PDF:English

Comment: This document contains translations of the 2006, 2009 and 2010 version of the Layeha for the Mujahideen.

Layeha for the Mujahideen - 2010 Version

Year:2010 Type of document:Internal Rules and Regulations ANSA:Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan/Taliban (IEA) Country / Territory:Afghanistan PDF:English, Pashtun

Comment: See especially prohibited acts in Section 12. This document contains translations of the 2006, 2009 and 2010 version of the Layeha for the Mujahideen.

Layeha for the Mujahideen - 2009 Version

Year:2009 Type of document:Internal Rules and Regulations ANSA:Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan/Taliban (IEA) Country / Territory:Afghanistan PDF:English

Comment: See especially prohibited acts in Section 11. This document contains translations of the 2006, 2009 and 2010 version of the Layeha for the Mujahideen.

Acte d'Engagement

Year:2008 Type of document:Agreements ANSA:Forces Républicaines Fédéralistes (FRF), Maï-Maï Yakutumba, Maï-Maï Zabuloni, Maï-Maï Kirikicho, Patriotes Résistants Congolais Sud Kivu (PARECO SK), Raïa Mutomboki, Maï-Maï Ny'Kiriba, Maï-Maï Kapopo, Maï-Maï Mahoro, Maï-Maï Shikito, Maï-Maï Shabunda, Simba Maï-Maï, Mudundu 40 Country / Territory:Congo, the Democratic Republic of the PDF:French

Comment: Notably Article III "Des Principes Humanitaires et du Respect des Droits de l'Homme".

Agreement on the Application of IHL between the Parties to the Conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Year:1992 Type of document:Agreements ANSA:Party of Democratic Action (SDA), Serbian Democratic Party (SDS), Croatian Democratic Community (HDZ) Country / Territory:Socialist Federal Republic of Yougoslavia PDF:English

Treatment of Detainees and Prisoners

Year:2011 Type of document:Unilateral Declarations and Statements ANSA:National Transitional Council/Free Libyan Army (NTC/FLA) Country / Territory:Libya PDF:English

El Ejército De Liberación Nacional Y El Derecho Humanitario

Year:1995 Type of document:Unilateral Declarations and Statements ANSA:Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) Country / Territory:Colombia PDF:Spanish

Comment: Public declaration of Commander Manuel Pérez. The ELN declares that it considers itself to be bound by the 1949 Geneva Conventions and by Additional Protocol II and reads some passages of the Code of War of the ELN affirming that they are bound by IHL and especially: protection of the civilian population, limitations in means and methods of war and human treatment of PoWs.

Fifteen-Point Programme of the SPLM

Year:1998 Type of document:Unilateral Declarations and Statements ANSA:Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLM/SPLA) Country / Territory:Sudan, South Sudan PDF:English

Comment: See notably Point 10 "Resettlement of Internally Displaced People and Refugees" and Point 13 "International Cooperation and Human Rights".

Frontline Manual

Year:2011 Type of document:Internal Rules and Regulations ANSA:National Transitional Council/Free Libyan Army (NTC/FLA) Country / Territory:Libya PDF:Arabic, English

El Codigo de Guerra

Year:1995 Type of document:Internal Rules and Regulations ANSA:Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) Country / Territory:Colombia PDF:Spanish, English

Eight Codes of Conduct

Type of document:Internal Rules and Regulations ANSA:Revolutionary United Front (RUF) Country / Territory:Sierra Leone PDF:English

Report of Commission on National Structures, Constitutional Guidelines and Codes of Conduct Adopted at the Second National Consultative Conference of the African National Congress

Year:1985 Type of document:Internal Rules and Regulations ANSA:African National Council/Umkhonto We Sizwe (ANC/MK) Country / Territory:South Africa PDF:English

Comment: The Report of Commission on National Structures, Constitutional Guidelines and Codes of Conduct includes the Code of Discipline, as well as the Military Code.

Accords de Lomé

Year:2002 Type of document:Agreements ANSA:Mouvement Patriotique de Côte d’Ivoire (MPCI) Country / Territory:Côte D'Ivoire PDF:French

Comment: First agreement on the release of civilians and military prisoners between the Government of the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire and the Patriotic Movement of Côte d’Ivoire.

Contonou Agreement on Liberia

Year:1993 Type of document:Agreements ANSA:National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy (ULIMO) Country / Territory:Liberia PDF:English

Comment: Especially Section D, Article 5 "Acts of Violation"; Section I, Article 10 "Prisoners of War"; Section E, Article 17 "Humanitarian Assistance"; Section F, Article 18 "Repatriation of Refugees".

Comprehensive Agreement on Human Rights

Year:1994 Type of document:Agreements ANSA:Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca (URNG) Country / Territory:Guatemala PDF:English

Ceasefire Agreement between the Transitional Government of Burundi and the Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie-Forces de Défense de la Démocratie

Year:2002 Type of document:Agreements ANSA:Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie - Forces de Défense de la Démocratie (CNDD-FDD) Country / Territory:Burundi PDF:English

Comment: Also known as the Burundi Ceasefire Agreement.
Notably Article II: release of all political prisoners, prohibition of mine-laying operations and of operations to obstruct demining, cessation of acts of violence against the civilian population.

Règles de la guerre dans le mouvement Alliance du Peuple pour un Congo Libre et Souverain (APCLS)

Year:2015 Type of document:Internal Rules and Regulations ANSA:Alliance du Peuple pour un Congo Libre et Souverain (APCLS) Country / Territory:Congo, the Democratic Republic of the PDF:French

Ordre du Commandant Josip Broz Tito concernant le Comportement Envers les Prisonniers de Guerre

Year:1941 Type of document:Internal Rules and Regulations ANSA:National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia Country / Territory:Socialist Federal Republic of Yougoslavia PDF:French

Agreement on Cessation of Hostilities and Peacful Settlement of Conflict between the Armed Forces of Liberia and the Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia

Year:1990 Type of document:Agreements ANSA:National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) Country / Territory:Liberia PDF:English

Comment: In Article 1, Paragraph 1 (g) the parties agree to "release all hostages, political prisoners and prisoners of war".