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

Final Act of the Geneva Conference, 1949

Signature:12.08.1949

Geneva Conventions, 1949

Ratification / Accession:14.05.65

Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977

Signature:10.06.77

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:20.11.90

Reservation / Declaration: 20.11.90

Declaration Article 90: 20.11.1990

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:20.11.90

Reservation / Declaration: 20.11.90

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:13.12.91

Reservation / Declaration: 13.12.91

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

Ratification / Accession:07.07.2000

Reservation / Declaration: 07.07.2000

Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005

Ratification / Accession:26.11.2007

Reservation / Declaration: 26.11.2007

Methods and Means of Warfare

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

Ratification / Accession:06.05.1930

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:18.09.72

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:24.06.94

Reservation / Declaration: 24.06.94

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

Ratification / Accession:24.06.94

Reservation / Declaration: 24.06.94

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

Ratification / Accession:24.06.94

Reservation / Declaration: 24.06.94

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:24.06.94

Reservation / Declaration: 24.06.94

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:26.09.95

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:05.01.98

Reservation / Declaration: 19.10.98

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

Ratification / Accession:05.01.98

Reservation / Declaration: 19.10.98

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997

Ratification / Accession:03.12.97

Reservation / Declaration: 03.12.97

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

Ratification / Accession:22.07.2002

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

Ratification / Accession:19.05.2009

Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008

Ratification / Accession:16.03.2015

Naval and Airwarfare

London Treaty on Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armaments, 1930

Ratification / Accession:27.10.1930

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

Signature:06.11.1936

Cultural Property

Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:11.12.98

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:29.11.2005

Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999

Ratification / Accession:29.11.2005

Reservation / Declaration: 29.11.2005

Criminal Repression

Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998

Ratification / Accession:07.07.2000

Other treaties relating to IHL

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948

Ratification / Accession:03.09.52

Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976

Ratification / Accession:11.06.81

Arms Trade Treaty, 2013

Ratification / Accession:19.06.2019

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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