Treaties, States parties, and Commentaries

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

Final Act of the Geneva Conference, 1949

Signature:12.08.1949

Geneva Conventions, 1949

Ratification / Accession:14.10.1958

Reservation / Declaration: 14.10.58

Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977

Signature:10.06.1977

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:21.06.1991

Reservation / Declaration: 21.06.91

Declaration Article 90: 23.09.1992

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:21.06.1991

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:17.12.1990

Reservation / Declaration: 17.12.90

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

Ratification / Accession:26.09.2006

Reservation / Declaration: 26.09.2006

Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005

Ratification / Accession:15.07.2009

Methods and Means of Warfare

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

Ratification / Accession:24.05.1930

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:05.10.1977

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:29.09.1983

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

Ratification / Accession:29.09.1983

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

Ratification / Accession:29.09.1983

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:29.09.1983

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:06.05.1994

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:22.08.1997

Reservation / Declaration: 22.08.97

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

Ratification / Accession:22.08.1997

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997

Ratification / Accession:14.01.1999

Reservation / Declaration: 14.01.99

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

Ratification / Accession:03.12.2002

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

Ratification / Accession:04.01.2007

Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008

Ratification / Accession:08.10.2012

Naval and Airwarfare

London Treaty on Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armaments, 1930

Ratification / Accession:27.10.1930

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

Signature:06.11.1936

Cultural Property

Final Act on the Protection of Cultural Property, The Hague, 1954

Signature:14.05.1954

Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:19.09.1984

Criminal Repression

Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1945

Ratification / Accession:05.10.1945

Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998

Ratification / Accession:01.07.2002

Reservation / Declaration: 01.07.2002

Other treaties relating to IHL

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948

Ratification / Accession:08.07.1949

Reservation / Declaration: 08.07.1949 15.11.59 19.01.51

Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976

Ratification / Accession:07.09.1984

Arms Trade Treaty, 2013

Ratification / Accession:03.06.2014

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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