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Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Additional Protocols, and their Commentaries
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Final Act of the Geneva Conference, 1949
Signature:
12.08.1949
Geneva Conventions, 1949
Ratification / Accession:
26.09.1956
Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977
Signature:
10.06.1977
Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977
Ratification / Accession:
10.11.2009
Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977
Ratification / Accession:
10.11.2009
Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989
Ratification / Accession:
28.03.1994
Reservation / Declaration:
27.10.90
Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict, 2000
Ratification / Accession:
24.09.2003
Reservation / Declaration:
24.09.2003
Methods and Means of Warfare
Geneva Protocol on Asphyxiating or Poisonous Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods, 1925
Ratification / Accession:
09.12.1986
Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972
Ratification / Accession:
26.03.1975
Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980
Signature:
10.04.1981
Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993
Ratification / Accession:
24.09.2003
Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997
Ratification / Accession:
11.09.2002
Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008
Ratification / Accession:
08.09.2011
Naval and Airwarfare
Procès-verbal on Submarine Warfare of the Treaty of London, 1936
Ratification / Accession:
25.05.1937
Cultural Property
Criminal Repression
Convention Statutory Limitations to War Crimes, 1968
Ratification / Accession:
22.07.1983
Reservation / Declaration:
22.07.83
Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998
Ratification / Accession:
10.02.2003
Other treaties relating to IHL
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948
Ratification / Accession:
22.03.1956
Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976
Ratification / Accession:
22.10.1985
Related databases
Customary IHL database
ICRC National Implementation Database of IHL
Reference documents
States party to the main treaties
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Map of States party to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols
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