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

Hague Convention on Hospital Ships, 1904

Ratification / Accession:26.03.1907

Final Act of the Geneva Conference, 1949

Signature:12.08.1949

Geneva Conventions, 1949

Ratification / Accession:31.03.50

Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977

Signature:10.06.77

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:17.02.82

Declaration Article 90: 17.02.1982

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:17.02.82

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:24.02.97

Reservation / Declaration: 24.02.97

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

Ratification / Accession:26.06.2002

Reservation / Declaration: 26.06.2002

Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005

Ratification / Accession:14.07.2006

Methods and Means of Warfare

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

Ratification / Accession:20.06.1907

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

Ratification / Accession:29.12.1900

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

Ratification / Accession:29.12.1900

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

Ratification / Accession:12.05.1910

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

Ratification / Accession:12.05.1910

Hague Declaration (XIV) on Explosives from Balloons, 1907

Ratification / Accession:12.05.1910

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

Ratification / Accession:12.07.1932

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:04.05.76

Reservation / Declaration: 04.05.76

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:20.08.82

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

Ratification / Accession:20.08.82

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

Ratification / Accession:20.08.82

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:20.08.82

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:10.03.95

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:24.03.98

Reservation / Declaration: 24.03.98

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

Ratification / Accession:24.03.98

Reservation / Declaration: 24.03.98

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997

Ratification / Accession:24.03.98

Reservation / Declaration: 24.03.98

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

Ratification / Accession:19.01.2004

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

Ratification / Accession:12.05.2006

Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008

Ratification / Accession:17.07.2012

Reservation / Declaration: 17.07.2012

Naval and Airwarfare

Hague Convention (VI) on Enemy Merchant Ships, 1907

Ratification / Accession:12.05.1910

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

Ratification / Accession:12.05.1910

Hague Convention (VIII) on Submarine Mines, 1907

Ratification / Accession:12.05.1910

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

Ratification / Accession:12.05.1910

Hague Convention (XI) on Restrictions of the Right of Capture, 1907

Ratification / Accession:12.05.1910

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

Ratification / Accession:12.05.1910

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

Ratification / Accession:22.05.1937

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:15.05.62

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:15.05.62

Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999

Ratification / Accession:09.07.2004

Criminal Repression

Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998

Ratification / Accession:12.10.2001

Reservation / Declaration: 12.10.2001

Amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, amended article 8, 2010

Ratification / Accession:10.09.2015

Amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, articles 8bis, 15bis and 15ter, 2010

Ratification / Accession:10.09.2015

Amendment to article 124 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

Ratification / Accession:14.12.2018

Amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, amended article 8 (Weapons which use microbial or other biological agents, or toxins), 2017

Ratification / Accession:07.07.2020

Amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, amended article 8 (Weapons the primary effect of which is to injure by fragments undetectable by x-rays in the human body), 2017

Ratification / Accession:07.07.2020

Amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, amended article 8 (Blinding laser weapons), 2017

Ratification / Accession:07.07.2020

Other treaties relating to IHL

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

Ratification / Accession:12.05.1910

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

Ratification / Accession:12.05.1910

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948

Ratification / Accession:07.09.2000

Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976

Ratification / Accession:05.08.88

Reservation / Declaration: 05.08.88

Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance, 2006

Ratification / Accession:02.12.2016

Reservation / Declaration: 02.12.2016

Arms Trade Treaty, 2013

Ratification / Accession:30.01.2015

Reservation / Declaration: 30.01.2015

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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