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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:
29.03.68
Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977
Ratification / Accession:
23.05.79
Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977
Ratification / Accession:
23.05.79
Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989
Ratification / Accession:
14.03.95
Reservation / Declaration:
14.03.95
Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict, 2000
Ratification / Accession:
04.10.2004
Reservation / Declaration:
04.10.2004
Methods and Means of Warfare
Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972
Ratification / Accession:
05.02.92
Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993
Ratification / Accession:
31.08.98
Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997
Ratification / Accession:
01.03.2000
Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008
Ratification / Accession:
27.06.2011
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, 2017
Ratification / Accession:
15.07.2020
Naval and Airwarfare
Cultural Property
Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954
Ratification / Accession:
03.01.2002
Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954
Ratification / Accession:
23.08.2017
Criminal Repression
Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998
Ratification / Accession:
08.09.2000
Amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, amended article 8, 2010
Ratification / Accession:
04.06.2013
Amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, articles 8bis, 15bis and 15ter, 2010
Ratification / Accession:
04.06.2013
Other treaties relating to IHL
Arms Trade Treaty, 2013
Ratification / Accession:
07.06.2019
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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