Geneva Conventions of 2034

Work In Progress - Ongoing Negotiations with the Federation

DRAFT 3 Geneva Conventions of 2034 DRAFT 3

Article 1: All signatories to these conventions agree to prohibit the use of Trans-Newtonian weapons against civilian vessels and populations. Said populations and vessels are to be treated as noncombatants as outlined by the Geneva Conventions of 1949.

Article 2: All signatories to these conventions agree to perform joint search and rescue operations for any disabled void vessels, civilian, commercial, or military in the event of accident, conflict, or force majeure. Private data shall be respected and crew are not required to divulge any information or be subject to any form of duress. Once the lives of crew and passengers is secure, flagged vessels shall remain off-limits except to designated authority of the nation or supra-national of registry.

Article 3: Unprovoked attack, threat of duress, or attempt to confiscate goods, data, vessels, or passengers without formal declaration of war against all void vessels within systems held sovereign by the signatories of these conventions is prohibited. Confiscated goods, vessels, and data are to be returned to their rightful owners. Data is not subject to inspection by any other than the rightful owner upon recovery. Signatories shall have the authority to carry out a customs inspection of goods delivered to their sovereign territory, illegal goods and passengers convicted of a crime shall be exempt from the confiscation clause of this article.

Article 4: Violations of Articles 1 and 3 shall be subject to suppression by combined operations by the military forces of all signatories at the request of the enforcement organization and prosecution for piracy, war crimes, or crimes against humanity.

Article 5: All provisions of these conventions shall be enforced by all signatories under the authority of the Interstellar Civilian Security Administration (hereafter referred to as ICSA). ICSA shall be an independent organization responsible for the protection of commercial void lanes. ICSA shall consist of five tribunal justices responsible for enforcing the Articles of these conventions. These justices shall be jointly appointed by a committee of one representative of each signatory and ratified by both the United Nations and Federation of European and Asian Nations.