https://en.encyclopedia.kz/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Hostages_Convention Hostages Convention - Revision history 2026-07-03T15:28:44Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.23.15 https://en.encyclopedia.kz/index.php?title=Hostages_Convention&diff=6680&oldid=prev Moderator: 1 revision 2026-05-16T20:00:33Z <p>1 revision</p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <tr style='vertical-align: top;'> <td colspan='1' style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='1' style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:00, 16 May 2026</td> </tr><tr><td colspan='2' style='text-align: center;'><div class="mw-diff-empty">(No difference)</div> </td></tr></table> Moderator https://en.encyclopedia.kz/index.php?title=Hostages_Convention&diff=6679&oldid=prev Good Olfactory: /* External links */ unneeded 2016-12-29T02:28:21Z <p>‎<span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">External links: </span> unneeded</span></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{EngvarB|date=October 2013}}<br /> {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2013}}<br /> {{Infobox treaty<br /> | name = Hostages Convention<br /> | long_name = International Convention against the Taking of Hostages<br /> | image = <br /> | image_width =<br /> | caption =<br /> | type = [[International criminal law]], anti-terrorism<br /> | date_drafted = 17 December 1979<br /> | date_signed = 18 December 1979&lt;ref&gt;The first states to sign the convention were [[West Germany]], [[Luxembourg]], and the United Kingdom. The United States signed two days later.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> | location_signed = New York<br /> | date_sealed =<br /> | date_effective = 3 June 1983<br /> | condition_effective = 22 ratifications<br /> | date_expiration =<br /> | signatories = 39<br /> | parties = 176<br /> | depositor = [[Secretary-General of the United Nations|UN Secretary-General]]<br /> | language =<br /> | languages = Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish<br /> | website =<br /> | wikisource =<br /> }}<br /> The '''Hostages Convention''' (formally the '''International Convention against the Taking of Hostages''') is a United Nations treaty by which states agree to prohibit and punish [[hostage taking]]. The treaty includes definitions of &quot;hostage&quot; and &quot;hostage taking&quot; and sets out the principle of ''[[aut dedere aut judicare]]'': a party to the treaty must prosecute a hostage taker if no other state requests [[extradition]] for prosecution of the same crime.<br /> <br /> ==Creation and entry into force==<br /> The creation of an anti-hostage-taking treaty was a project initiated by the [[Federal Republic of Germany]] in 1976.&lt;ref&gt;Blumenau, Bernhard. &quot;The United Nations and Terrorism. Germany, Multilateralism, and Antiterrorism Efforts in the 1970s&quot;, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.&lt;/ref&gt;The convention was adopted on 17 December 1979 by the issuance of Resolution 34/1461 by the [[United Nations General Assembly|UN General Assembly]]. By the end of 1980, it had been signed by 39 states and it came into force on 3 June 1983 after it had been ratified by 22 states. As of October 2016, the convention has 176 state parties.<br /> <br /> ==State parties==<br /> The convention has 176 state parties, which includes 175 [[Member states of the United Nations|UN members]] plus [[Niue]]. The 19 UN member states that are ''not'' parties to the treaty are:<br /> {{Columns-list|3|<br /> *{{flagu|Angola}}<br /> *{{flagu|Burundi}}<br /> *{{flagu|Republic of the Congo}}<br /> *{{flagu|Democratic Republic of the Congo}}<br /> *{{flagu|East Timor}}<br /> *{{flagu|Eritrea}}<br /> *{{flagu|Gambia}}<br /> *{{flagu|Indonesia}}<br /> *{{flagu|Israel}}<br /> *{{flagu|Maldives}}<br /> *{{flagu|Samoa}}<br /> *{{flagu|Solomon Islands}}<br /> *{{flagu|Somalia}}<br /> *{{flagu|South Sudan}}<br /> *{{flagu|Syria}}<br /> *{{flagu|Tuvalu}}<br /> *{{flagu|Vanuatu}}<br /> *{{flagu|Zimbabwe}}<br /> }}<br /> <br /> Of these 19 states, the convention has been signed but not ratified by the DR Congo and Israel. Other non-state-parties include the [[Holy See]] and the [[Cook Islands]] (though New Zealand's ratification states that it applies to the Cook Islands and Niue (but not [[Tokelau]])).<br /> <br /> ===Former state parties and successions===<br /> Former state parties that were not formally succeeded by any existing state include [[Czechoslovakia]], [[East Germany]], and [[Yugoslavia]]. A number of states ratified but have since been succeeded by new states: [[Serbia]] ratified as the [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]]; Russia ratified as the [[Soviet Union]]; [[Belarus]] ratified as the [[Byelorussian SSR]]; and [[Ukraine]] ratified as the [[Ukrainian SSR]].<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> *Blumenau, Bernhard. ''The United Nations and Terrorism. Germany, Multilateralism, and Antiterrorism Efforts in the 1970s''. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, ISBN 978-1-137-39196-4.<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> *[http://www.un.org/en/sc/ctc/docs/conventions/Conv5.pdf Text of convention], [[United Nations Treaty Series]].<br /> *[https://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&amp;mtdsg_no=XVIII-5&amp;chapter=18&amp;clang=_en Signatures and ratifications].<br /> <br /> [[Category:Hostage taking]]<br /> [[Category:Terrorism treaties]]<br /> [[Category:International criminal law treaties]]<br /> [[Category:Treaties concluded in 1979]]<br /> [[Category:Treaties entered into force in 1983]]<br /> [[Category:United Nations treaties]]<br /> [[Category:Treaties of the Afghan Transitional Administration]]<br /> [[Category:Treaties of Albania]]<br /> [[Category:Treaties of Algeria]]<br /> [[Category:Treaties of Andorra]]<br /> [[Category:Treaties of Antigua and Barbuda]]<br /> [[Category:Treaties of Argentina]]<br /> [[Category:Treaties of Armenia]]<br /> [[Category:Treaties of Australia]]<br /> 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