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

Geneva Conventions, 1949

Ratification / Accession:30.11.1971

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:30.10.1986

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:30.10.1986

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:13.02.1992

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

Ratification / Accession:21.09.2004

Reservation / Declaration: 21.09.2004

Methods and Means of Warfare

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

Ratification / Accession:09.12.1988

Reservation / Declaration: 09.12.88

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:28.10.1988

Reservation / Declaration: 28.10.88

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:11.03.2016

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:11.03.2016

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:28.04.1997

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:11.03.2016

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

Ratification / Accession:11.03.2016

Naval and Airwarfare

Cultural Property

Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:26.08.2008

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:26.08.2008

Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999

Ratification / Accession:26.08.2008

Criminal Repression

Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998

Signature:11.12.2000

Other treaties relating to IHL

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948

Ratification / Accession:27.03.1990

Reservation / Declaration: 27.03.90

Arms Trade Treaty, 2013

Signature:21.11.2013

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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