A) Objetivos de la promesa
Achieving universality of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) legal instruments contributes to responsible State behaviour.
By ratifying and implementing IHL treaties, States can safeguard the rights and dignity of individuals during armed conflict and significantly improve the protection and assistance of those affected by armed conflict.
B) Plan de acción
The Nigerian Government will:
1 – Consider the ratification of IHL treaties that Nigeria is not yet a Party, such as:
- The Additional Protocol III 2005 to the Geneva Conventions;
- The 1980 Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of the Certain Conventional Weapons which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects, and its 2001 amendments, as well as its Protocols;
- The Convention on the Prohibition of Military Use of Environmental Modification Techniques.
2 – Consider the endorsement of IHL international political instruments, such as:
- The Paris Principles and Commitments on Children Associated with Armed Forces or Armed Groups
- The Political Declaration on Strengthening the Protection of Civilians from the Humanitarian Consequences arising from the use of Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas.
3 – Consider the national enactment of IHL and other relevant instruments that Nigeria has already ratified, in order to give them force of law in Nigeria, in particular:
- The 1997 Additional Protocols (I) & (II) to the Geneva Conventions of 1949;
- The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction of 1997 (Ottawa Convention);
- The Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008;
- The Arms Trade Treaty, 2013;
- The Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict, 2000;
- The Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance, 2006;
- The African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa of 2009 (Kampala Convention);
4 – Carry out adequate training and other measures towards ensuring IHL compliance, both in peacetime and during armed conflict; promote and disseminate IHL within the armed forces, and to civilian personnel involved in crisis management in situations of armed conflict.
5 – Enhance and support the capacity of the National IHL Committee with the needed resources.
6 – Consider the timely collation and reporting on implementation of relevant IHL treaties and pledges.
C) Indicadores para medir los avances:
To be discussed
Number of treaties ratified
Number of treaties implemented
Number of meetings of the National IHL Committee on treaty ratification, domestication, and implementation
Number of State reports on treaty implementation
No of engagements with relevant authorities
D) Recursos requeridos:
- Sufficient fiscal allocation in the yearly budget appropriation for the National IHL Committee, treaty ratification/ implementation/reporting, and the promotion and dissemination of IHL.
- Dedicated human resource for the National IHL Committee
