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

Hague Convention on Hospital Ships, 1904

Ratification / Accession:26.03.1907

Final Act of the Geneva Conference, 1949

Signature:12.08.1949

Geneva Conventions, 1949

Ratification / Accession:03.09.1952

Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977

Signature:10.06.1977

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:20.05.1986

Reservation / Declaration: 20.05.86

Declaration Article 90: 27.03.1987

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:20.05.1986

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:16.12.1991

Reservation / Declaration: 16.12.91 01.07.96 26.09.96

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

Ratification / Accession:06.05.2002

Reservation / Declaration: 06.05.2002

Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005

Ratification / Accession:12.05.2015

Methods and Means of Warfare

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

Ratification / Accession:04.09.1900

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:08.08.1910

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

Ratification / Accession:08.08.1910

Hague Declaration (XIV) on Explosives from Balloons, 1907

Ratification / Accession:08.08.1910

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

Ratification / Accession:04.12.1928

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:15.03.1979

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:07.02.1995

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

Ratification / Accession:07.02.1995

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

Ratification / Accession:07.02.1995

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:07.02.1995

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:27.01.1997

Reservation / Declaration: 27.01.97

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:10.03.1999

Reservation / Declaration: 10.03.99

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

Ratification / Accession:10.03.1999

Reservation / Declaration: 10.03.99

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997

Ratification / Accession:04.09.1998

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

Ratification / Accession:12.02.2004

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

Ratification / Accession:25.01.2010

Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008

Ratification / Accession:22.12.2009

Naval and Airwarfare

Hague Convention (VI) on Enemy Merchant Ships, 1907

Ratification / Accession:08.08.1910

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

Ratification / Accession:08.08.1910

Hague Convention (VIII) on Submarine Mines, 1907

Ratification / Accession:08.08.1910

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

Ratification / Accession:08.08.1910

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

Ratification / Accession:08.08.1910

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

Ratification / Accession:08.08.1910

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

Ratification / Accession:23.12.1936

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:16.09.1960

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:16.09.1960

Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999

Ratification / Accession:13.10.2010

Criminal Repression

Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1945

Ratification / Accession:05.10.1945

European Convention on Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes, 1974

Ratification / Accession:26.03.2003

Reservation / Declaration: 26.03.2003

Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998

Ratification / Accession:28.06.2000

Reservation / Declaration: 28.06.2000

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

Ratification / Accession:26.11.2013

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

Ratification / Accession:26.11.2013

Amendment to article 124 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

Ratification / Accession:16.05.2019

Other treaties relating to IHL

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

Ratification / Accession:08.08.1910

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

Ratification / Accession:08.08.1910

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948

Ratification / Accession:05.09.1951

Reservation / Declaration: 05.09.51

Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976

Ratification / Accession:12.07.1982

Convention on Mercenaries, 1989

Ratification / Accession:31.05.2002

Reservation / Declaration: 31.05.2002

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

Ratification / Accession:02.06.2011

Reservation / Declaration: 02.06.2011

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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