Treaties, States parties, and Commentaries

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- 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:03.08.54

Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977

Signature:10.06.77

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:23.10.89

Declaration Article 90: 23.10.1989

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:23.10.89

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:01.10.90

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

Ratification / Accession:25.01.2006

Reservation / Declaration: 25.01.2006

Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005

Ratification / Accession:31.03.2011

Methods and Means of Warfare

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

Ratification / Accession:04.06.62

Hague Declaration (IV,2) concerning Asphyxiating Gases, 1899

Ratification / Accession:04.06.62

Hague Declaration (IV,3) concerning Expanding Bullets, 1899

Ratification / Accession:04.06.62

Hague Convention (IV) on War on Land and its Annexed Regulations, 1907

Ratification / Accession:04.06.62

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

Ratification / Accession:04.06.62

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:26.03.75

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:23.06.82

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

Ratification / Accession:23.06.82

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

Ratification / Accession:23.06.82

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:23.06.82

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:11.07.96

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:13.09.2000

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

Ratification / Accession:02.03.2004

Reservation / Declaration: 02.03.2004

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997

Ratification / Accession:03.09.2003

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

Ratification / Accession:27.03.2008

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

Ratification / Accession:29.09.2008

Naval and Airwarfare

Hague Convention (VI) on Enemy Merchant Ships, 1907

Ratification / Accession:04.06.62

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

Ratification / Accession:04.06.62

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

Ratification / Accession:04.06.62

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

Ratification / Accession:04.06.62

Cultural Property

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

Signature:14.05.54

Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:07.05.57

Reservation / Declaration: 30.12.54

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:07.05.57

Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999

Ratification / Accession:13.12.2000

Criminal Repression

Convention Statutory Limitations to War Crimes, 1968

Ratification / Accession:08.05.69

Reservation / Declaration: 08.05.69

Other treaties relating to IHL

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

Ratification / Accession:04.06.62

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

Ratification / Accession:04.06.62

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948

Ratification / Accession:11.08.54

Reservation / Declaration: 11.08.54

Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976

Ratification / Accession:07.06.88

Convention on Mercenaries, 1989

Ratification / Accession:28.05.97

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Map of States party to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols

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