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 was held in 1899 and the
Second Hague Conference in 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 due to the start of
World War I.