Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907

The Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 are a series of international treaties and declarations negotiated at two international peace conferences at The Hague in the Netherlands, the First Hague Conference of 1899 and the Second Hague Conference of 1907. Along with the Geneva Conventions, the Hague Conventions were among the first formal statements of the laws of war and war crimes in the body of secular international law. A third conference was planned for 1914 and later rescheduled for 1915, but it did not take place because of the start of World War I.

The most tangible outcome of the First Hague Conference of 1899 was the creation of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the first global mechanism for the peaceful resolution of international disputes.

The provisions of the 1907 Hague Regulations, "have come to be recognized as customary law; hence they apply regardless of whether parties to the conflicts have ratified" them.