Hague Convention

The Hague Convention(s) may refer to:

  • Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907), among the first formal statements of the laws of war and war crimes in international law
  • International Opium Convention, the first international drug control treaty, sometimes referred to as the Hague Convention of 1912
  • Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (signed 14 May 1954)
  • Hague Conference on Private International Law, the preeminent organisation in the area of private international law from the early 1900s through the present day
    • Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents, signed on October 5, 1961
    • Hague Convention on Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters, signed in 1971
    • Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, signed in 1993
  • Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, 1970
  • Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, ratified on 25 October 1980
  • Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Trusts and on their Recognition, signed on 1 July 1985
  • Hague Convention 1996, a convention on jurisdiction, recognition, enforcement and in respect of parental responsibility and the protection of children
  • Hague Evidence Convention
  • Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption
  • Hague Securities Convention
  • Hague Service Convention (1965)
  • Hague Civil Procedure Convention (1954)

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    We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, “That man is a Red, that man is a Communist.” You never heard a real American talk in that manner.
    —Frank Hague (1876–1956)