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:06.09.65

Final Act of the Geneva Conference, 1949

Signature:12.08.1949

Geneva Conventions, 1949

Ratification / Accession:15.04.54

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:25.11.82

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:23.06.99

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:21.08.91

Reservation / Declaration: 21.08.91

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

Ratification / Accession:09.02.2007

Methods and Means of Warfare

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

Ratification / Accession:17.04.1907

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

Ratification / Accession:22.02.1912

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

Ratification / Accession:22.02.1912

Hague Declaration (XIV) on Explosives from Balloons, 1907

Signature:18.10.1907

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

Ratification / Accession:24.06.66

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:21.04.76

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:02.03.87

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

Ratification / Accession:02.03.87

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

Ratification / Accession:02.03.87

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:02.03.87

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:29.04.97

Reservation / Declaration: 29.04.97

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:14.11.2012

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

Ratification / Accession:17.10.2007

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

Ratification / Accession:14.11.2012

Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008

Ratification / Accession:06.04.2016

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, 2017

Ratification / Accession:30.01.2018

Reservation / Declaration: 30.01.2018

Naval and Airwarfare

Hague Convention (VI) on Enemy Merchant Ships, 1907

Ratification / Accession:22.02.1912

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

Signature:18.10.1907

Hague Convention (VIII) on Submarine Mines, 1907

Signature:18.10.1907

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

Ratification / Accession:22.02.1912

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

Signature:18.10.1907

Havana Convention on Maritime Neutrality, 1928

Signature:20.02.1928

Cultural Property

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

Ratification / Accession:26.08.1935

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:26.11.57

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:26.11.57

Criminal Repression

Convention Statutory Limitations to War Crimes, 1968

Ratification / Accession:13.09.72

Reservation / Declaration: 13.09.72

Other treaties relating to IHL

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

Signature:18.10.1907

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

Ratification / Accession:22.02.1912

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948

Ratification / Accession:04.03.53

Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976

Ratification / Accession:10.04.78

Convention on Mercenaries, 1989

Ratification / Accession:09.02.2007

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

Ratification / Accession:02.02.2009

Reservation / Declaration: 02.02.2009

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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