The duty for States to implement international law within their national systems:

• 1948 Genocide Convention (see art. V)
  [www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/p_genoci.htm]

• 1949 Geneva Conventions:
  
  • Art. 49 of the 1949 Geneva Convention (I)
    [www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/b0d5f4c1f4b8102041256739003e6366/
    3f6c2b8b20272f58c12563cd0051a2bb?OpenDocument]

  • Art. 50 og the 1949 Geneva Convention (II)
    [www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/b0d5f4c1f4b8102041256739003e6366/
    58854e245cb34b82c12563cd0051a8e4?OpenDocument]

  • Art. 129 of the 1949 Geneva Convention (III)
    [www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/b0d5f4c1f4b8102041256739003e6366/
    c083f579bd003884c12563cd0051b5d3?OpenDocument]

  • Art. 146 of the 1949 Geneva Convention (IV)
    [www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/b0d5f4c1f4b8102041256739003e6366/
    6f96ee4c7d1e72cac12563cd0051c63a?OpenDocument]

• 1965 Convention on Racial Discrimination (see art. 2.1.d)
  [www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/d_icerd.htm]
• 1966 Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (see art.2.2)
  [www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/a_ccpr.htm]
• 1984 Torture Convention (see artiche 2 and 5)
  [www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/h_cat39.htm]
• Statute of the International Criminal Court (see art. 88)
  [www.un.org/law/icc/statute/romefra.htm]
• International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia , Furundzija, judgement of 10 December 1998 (see §§148-149)
  [www.un.org/icty/furundzija/trialc2/judgement/index.htm]