Treaties, States parties, and Commentaries

Treaties and Documents
- Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Additional Protocols, and their Commentaries
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Cyprus

Victims of Armed Conflicts

Geneva Conventions, 1949

Ratification / Accession:23.05.62

Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977

Signature:10.06.77

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:01.06.79

Declaration Article 90: 14.10.2002

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:18.03.96

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:07.02.91

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

Ratification / Accession:02.07.2010

Reservation / Declaration: 02.07.2010

Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005

Ratification / Accession:27.11.2007

Methods and Means of Warfare

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

Ratification / Accession:12.12.66

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:06.11.73 21.11.73 13.11.73

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:12.12.88

Reservation / Declaration: 12.12.88

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

Ratification / Accession:12.12.88

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

Ratification / Accession:12.12.88

Reservation / Declaration: 12.12.88

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:12.12.88

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:28.08.98

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:22.07.2003

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

Ratification / Accession:22.07.2003

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997

Ratification / Accession:17.01.2003

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

Ratification / Accession:11.03.2010

Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008

Signature:23.09.2009

Naval and Airwarfare

Cultural Property

Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:09.09.64

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:09.09.64

Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999

Ratification / Accession:16.05.2001

Criminal Repression

Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998

Ratification / Accession:07.03.2002

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

Ratification / Accession:25.09.2013

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

Ratification / Accession:25.09.2013

Other treaties relating to IHL

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948

Ratification / Accession:29.03.82

Reservation / Declaration: 18.05.98

Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976

Ratification / Accession:12.04.78

Convention on Mercenaries, 1989

Ratification / Accession:08.07.93

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

Signature:06.02.2007

Arms Trade Treaty, 2013

Ratification / Accession:10.05.2016

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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