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

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:28.12.1956

Reservation / Declaration: 28.12.56

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:14.09.1983

Reservation / Declaration: 14.09.83

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:14.09.1983

Reservation / Declaration: 31.05.2000

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:02.03.1992

Reservation / Declaration: 02.03.92

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

Ratification / Accession:20.02.2008

Reservation / Declaration: 20.02.2008

Methods and Means of Warfare

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

Ratification / Accession:12.06.1907

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

Ratification / Accession:21.11.1904

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

Ratification / Accession:21.11.1904

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

Ratification / Accession:10.05.1917

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

Ratification / Accession:15.01.1910

Hague Declaration (XIV) on Explosives from Balloons, 1907

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

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

Ratification / Accession:13.07.1952

Reservation / Declaration: 13.07.52

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:15.11.1984

Reservation / Declaration: 15.11.84

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:07.04.1982

Reservation / Declaration: 14.09.81

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

Ratification / Accession:07.04.1982

Reservation / Declaration: 14.09.81

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

Ratification / Accession:07.04.1982

Reservation / Declaration: 14.09.81

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:07.04.1982

Reservation / Declaration: 14.09.81

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:25.04.1997

Reservation / Declaration: 25.04.97

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:04.11.1998

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

Ratification / Accession:04.11.1998

Reservation / Declaration: 04.11.98

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

Ratification / Accession:11.08.2003

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

Ratification / Accession:10.06.2010

Reservation / Declaration: 10.06.2010

Naval and Airwarfare

Hague Convention (VI) on Enemy Merchant Ships, 1907

Ratification / Accession:10.05.1917

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

Ratification / Accession:10.05.1917

Hague Convention (VIII) on Submarine Mines, 1907

Ratification / Accession:10.05.1917

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

Ratification / Accession:15.01.1910

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

Ratification / Accession:10.05.1917

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

Ratification / Accession:15.01.1910

Reservation / Declaration: 15.01.1910

Cultural Property

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

Signature:14.05.1954

Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:05.01.2000

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:05.01.2000

Criminal Repression

Other treaties relating to IHL

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

Ratification / Accession:15.01.1910

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

Ratification / Accession:15.01.1910

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948

Ratification / Accession:18.04.1983

Reservation / Declaration: 18.04.83 15.11.54 13.09.55 25.07.56 06.06.97 16.09.99

Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976

Ratification / Accession:08.06.2005

Reservation / Declaration: 08.06.2005

Arms Trade Treaty, 2013

Ratification / Accession:06.07.2020

Reservation / Declaration: 06.07.2020

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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