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Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Additional Protocols, and their Commentaries
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Victims of Armed Conflicts
Geneva Conventions, 1949
Ratification / Accession:
20.09.1984
Reservation / Declaration:
20.09.84
Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977
Ratification / Accession:
20.09.1984
Reservation / Declaration:
20.09.84
Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989
Ratification / Accession:
05.12.1990
Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict, 2000
Ratification / Accession:
11.10.2007
Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005
Signature:
14.03.2006
Methods and Means of Warfare
Geneva Protocol on Asphyxiating or Poisonous Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods, 1925
Ratification / Accession:
08.11.1990
Reservation / Declaration:
08.11.90
Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972
Ratification / Accession:
26.07.2016
Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993
Ratification / Accession:
16.09.2015
Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997
Ratification / Accession:
05.07.2002
Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008
Signature:
03.12.2008
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, 2017
Signature:
27.09.2018
Naval and Airwarfare
Cultural Property
Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954
Ratification / Accession:
07.02.2012
Criminal Repression
Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998
Signature:
07.10.1998
Other treaties relating to IHL
OAU Convention on Mercenaries, 1977
Signature:
19.07.1979
Convention on Mercenaries, 1989
Signature:
28.12.1990
Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance, 2006
Signature:
24.09.2014
Arms Trade Treaty, 2013
Signature:
24.09.2013
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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