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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:
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
Reference documents
States party to the main treaties
IHL_and_other_r... (461.83 kb)
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Map of States party to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols
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