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Domestic Legislation | Resources and Links





Domestic legislation for serious crimes under international law

Crimes

Crime of Aggression

No provision

Crimes Against Humanity

No provision

Genocide

No provision

War Crimes

  • The Chemical Weapon Act of Liberia (CWAL) of 2007.
    (An Act to Implement the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction to which Liberia is a Party). [ENG]

  • An Act to Establish the Liberian National Red Cross Society. 21 August 2008. [ENG]


    International Criminal Court

    Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: The Republic of Liberia signed the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court on 17 July 1998 and deposited its instrument of ratification on 22 September 2004.

  • Resources and Links

  • The Constitution of Liberia (1986).
    National Elections Commission, Republic of Liberia. [ENG]. [Last accessed 02Jun17]. [External Link to pdf document]

  • The Liberian Constitutions.
    Liberian Collections Project, Archive of Traditional Music at Indiana University. [ENG]. [Last accessed 02Jun17]. [External Link]

  • Penal Law (Volumen IV, Title 26 - Liberian Code of Laws Revised).
    Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa (ICLA). [ENG]. [Last accessed 02Jun17]. [External Link to pdf document]

  • An Act Adopting a New Penal Law and Repealing Sections 31.3 & 32.1 of the Criminal Procedure Law.
    United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. [ENG]. [Last accessed 02Jun17]. [External Link to pdf document]

  • The Prosecutor vs. Charles Ghankay Taylor.
    The Special Court for Sierra Leone and the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone, Freetown and The Hague. [ENG]. [Last accessed 02Jun17]. [External Link]

  • The Prosecutor vs. Charles Ghankay Taylor: Appeal Judgement (SCSL-03-01-A-1389) (26 September 2013).
    The Special Court for Sierra Leone and the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone, Freetown and The Hague. [ENG]. [Last accessed 02Jun17]. [External Link to pdf document]

  • The Prosecutor vs. Charles Ghankay Taylor: Trial Judgement (SCSL-03-01-T-1283) (26 April 2012).
    The Special Court for Sierra Leone and the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone, Freetown and The Hague. [ENG]. [Last accessed 02Jun17]. [External Link to pdf document]

  • Legal Guide to Liberia.
    U.S. Law Library of Congress. [ENG]. [Last accessed 02Jun17]. [External Link]

  • List of International Humanitarian Law Treaties to which Liberia is a State party.
    (International Committee of the Red Cross). [ENG] [Last accessed 02Jun17] [External Link]