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18.1.2 National Obligations to Implement and Enforce the Law of War. States, as Partiesto treaties, have certain obligations to implement and enforce those treaties. These obligationsmay be written as a general obligation to undertake to respect and to ensure respect for the treaty.In addition, treaties may provide for more specific obligations to help implement andenforce their provisions, such as obligations with respect to violations of the treaty ordissemination of the text of the treaty.Different treaties may have different mechanisms to implement and to ensure compliancewith that treaty.18.1.2.1 General Treaty Obligations to Take Appropriate Actions to Implementand Enforce the Treaty – 1949 Geneva Conventions. Parties to the 1949 Geneva Conventionsundertake to respect and ensure respect for the conventions in all circumstances. 6 This is ageneral obligation to take the measures that the State deems appropriate in order to fulfill itsobligations under the conventions.18.1.2.2 General Treaty Obligations to Take Appropriate Actions to Implementand Enforce the Treaty – AP III. Parties to AP III undertake to respect and to ensure respect forAP III in all circumstances. 718.1.2.3 General Treaty Obligations to Take Appropriate Actions to Implementand Enforce the Treaty – CCW Amended Mines Protocol. Parties to the CCW Amended MinesProtocol shall take all appropriate steps, including legislative and other measures, to prevent andsuppress violations of that Protocol by persons or on territory under its jurisdiction or control. 818.1.2.4 General Treaty Obligations to Take Appropriate Actions to Implementand Enforce the Treaty – Child Soldiers Protocol. Each Party to the Child Soldiers Protocolshall take all necessary legal, administrative, and other measures to ensure the effectiveimplementation and enforcement of the provisions of this Protocol within its jurisdiction. 9warfare. He shall respect the rights of neutrals as prescribed by international law and by pertinent provisions oftreaties, and shall exact a like observance from neutrals.”).6 GWS art. 1 (“The High Contracting Parties undertake to respect and to ensure respect for the present Conventionin all circumstances.”); GWS-SEA art. 1 (same); GPW art. 1 (same); GC art. 1 (same).7 AP III art. 1(1) (“The High Contracting Parties undertake to respect and to ensure respect for this Protocol in allcircumstances.”).8 CCW AMENDED MINES PROTOCOL art. 14 (“1. Each High Contracting Party shall take all appropriate steps,including legislative and other measures, to prevent and suppress violations of this Protocol by persons or onterritory under its jurisdiction or control. 2. The measures envisaged in paragraph I of this Article includeappropriate measures to ensure the imposition of penal sanctions against persons who, in relation to an armedconflict and contrary to the provisions of this Protocol, wilfully kill or cause serious injury to civilians and to bringsuch persons to justice.”).9 Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict,art. 6(1), May 25, 2000, 2173 UNTS 222, 238 (“Each State Party shall take all necessary legal, administrative andother measures to ensure the effective implementation and enforcement of the provisions of this Protocol within itsjurisdiction.”).1054