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- Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Additional Protocols, and their Commentaries
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Victims of Armed Conflicts

Hague Convention on Hospital Ships, 1904

Ratification / Accession:26.03.1907

Hague Convention (XI) on Restrictions of the Right of Capture, 1907

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

Final Act of the Geneva Conference, 1949

Signature:12.08.1949

Geneva Conventions, 1949

Ratification / Accession:27.08.1953

Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977

Signature:10.06.1977

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:13.08.1982

Reservation / Declaration: 13.08.82

Declaration Article 90: 13.08.1982

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:13.08.1982

Reservation / Declaration: 13.08.82

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:06.08.1992

Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict, 2000

Ratification / Accession:01.02.2002

Reservation / Declaration: 01.02.2002

Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005

Ratification / Accession:03.06.2009

Methods and Means of Warfare

Hague Convention (II) on the Laws and Customs of War on Land, 1899

Ratification / Accession:12.11.1918

Hague Declaration (IV,2) concerning Asphyxiating Gases, 1899

Ratification / Accession:04.09.1900

Hague Declaration (IV,3) concerning Expanding Bullets, 1899

Ratification / Accession:04.09.1900

Hague Convention (IV) on War on Land and its Annexed Regulations, 1907

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

Reservation / Declaration: 27.11.1909

Hague Declaration (XIV) on Explosives from Balloons, 1907

Signature:18.10.1907

Geneva Protocol on Asphyxiating or Poisonous Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods, 1925

Ratification / Accession:09.05.1928

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:10.08.1973

Reservation / Declaration: 10.08.73

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:14.03.1983

CCW Protocol (I) on Non-Detectable Fragments, 1980

Ratification / Accession:14.03.1983

CCW Protocol (II) prohibiting Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices, 1980

Ratification / Accession:14.03.1983

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:14.03.1983

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:17.08.1995

Reservation / Declaration: 17.08.95

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:27.07.1998

Reservation / Declaration: 27.07.98

CCW Protocol (II) prohibiting Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices, amended, 1996

Ratification / Accession:27.07.1998

Reservation / Declaration: 27.07.98

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997

Ratification / Accession:29.06.1998

Reservation / Declaration: 29.06.98

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW ), amended Article 1, 2001

Ratification / Accession:25.09.2003

CCW Protocol (V) on Explosive Remnants of War, 2003

Ratification / Accession:01.10.2007

Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008

Ratification / Accession:02.04.2009

Naval and Airwarfare

Hague Convention (III) on Maritime Warfare, 1899

Ratification / Accession:12.11.1918

Hague Convention (VI) on Enemy Merchant Ships, 1907

Ratification / Accession:12.11.1918

Hague Convention (VII) on Conversion of Merchant Ships, 1907

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

Hague Convention (VIII) on Submarine Mines, 1907

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

Hague Convention (IX) on Bombardment by Naval Forces, 1907

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

Hague Convention (XI) on Restrictions of the Right of Capture, 1907

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

Hague Convention (XIII) on Neutral Powers in Naval War, 1907

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

Procès-verbal on Submarine Warfare of the Treaty of London, 1936

Ratification / Accession:01.04.1937

Cultural Property

Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:25.03.1964

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:25.03.1964

Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999

Ratification / Accession:01.03.2002

Criminal Repression

Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998

Ratification / Accession:28.12.2000

Amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, amended article 8, 2010

Ratification / Accession:17.07.2014

Amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, articles 8bis, 15bis and 15ter, 2010

Ratification / Accession:17.07.2014

Other treaties relating to IHL

Hague Convention (III) on the Opening of Hostilites, 1907

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

Hague Convention (V) on Neutral Powers in case of War on Land, 1907

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948

Ratification / Accession:19.03.1958

Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976

Ratification / Accession:17.01.1990

Reservation / Declaration: 17.01.90

Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance, 2006

Ratification / Accession:07.06.2012

Reservation / Declaration: 07.06.2012

Arms Trade Treaty, 2013

Ratification / Accession:03.06.2014

Reservation / Declaration: 03.06.2014

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