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Victims of Armed Conflicts

Final Act of the Geneva Conference, 1949

Signature:12.08.1949

Geneva Conventions, 1949

Ratification / Accession:15.10.69

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:15.12.83

Declaration Article 90: 09.12.1999

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:15.12.83

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:21.08.90

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

Ratification / Accession:24.01.2003

Reservation / Declaration: 24.01.2003

Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005

Ratification / Accession:30.06.2008

Methods and Means of Warfare

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

Ratification / Accession:17.03.2009

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:17.12.73

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:17.12.98

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

Ratification / Accession:17.12.98

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

Ratification / Accession:17.12.98

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:17.12.98

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:31.05.96

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:17.12.98

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

Ratification / Accession:17.12.98

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997

Ratification / Accession:17.03.99

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

Ratification / Accession:03.06.2009

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

Ratification / Accession:27.04.2009

Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008

Ratification / Accession:28.04.2011

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, 2017

Ratification / Accession:05.07.2018

Naval and Airwarfare

Havana Convention on Maritime Neutrality, 1928

Signature:20.02.1928

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

Ratification / Accession:07.07.1937

Cultural Property

Roerich Pact for the Protection of Artistic and Scientific Institutions, 1935

Signature:15.04.1935

Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:03.06.98

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:03.06.98

Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999

Ratification / Accession:09.12.2003

Criminal Repression

Convention Statutory Limitations to War Crimes, 1968

Ratification / Accession:27.04.2009

Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998

Ratification / Accession:07.06.2001

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

Ratification / Accession:05.02.2015

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

Ratification / Accession:05.02.2015

Other treaties relating to IHL

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948

Ratification / Accession:14.10.50

Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976

Ratification / Accession:07.02.96

Convention on Mercenaries, 1989

Ratification / Accession:20.09.2001

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

Ratification / Accession:16.02.2012

Arms Trade Treaty, 2013

Ratification / Accession:25.09.2013

Reservation / Declaration: 25.09.2013

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