By entering this website you agree that we use cookies in order to understand visitor preferences and keep improving our service.
Learn more
I accept
International Committee of the Red Cross
French
Contact
Resource centre
International Committee of the Red Cross
English
Français
Toggle navigation
Donate
Home
Who we are
What we do
Where we work
War & Law
Support us
Home
Who we are
What we do
Where we work
War & Law
Support us
Donate
Treaties, States Parties and Commentaries
Advanced Search
Treaties and Documents
Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Additional Protocols, and their Commentaries
By date
By topic
By State
Historical Treaties and Documents
By date
By topic
By State
Algeria
Victims of Armed Conflicts
Geneva Conventions, 1949
Ratification / Accession:
20.06.1960
Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977
Signature:
10.06.1977
Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977
Ratification / Accession:
16.08.1989
Reservation / Declaration:
16.08.89
Declaration Article 90:
16.08.1989
Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977
Ratification / Accession:
16.08.1989
Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989
Ratification / Accession:
16.04.1993
Reservation / Declaration:
16.04.93
Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict, 2000
Ratification / Accession:
06.05.2009
Reservation / Declaration:
06.05.2009
Methods and Means of Warfare
Geneva Protocol on Asphyxiating or Poisonous Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods, 1925
Ratification / Accession:
27.01.1992
Reservation / Declaration:
27.01.92
Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972
Ratification / Accession:
22.07.2001
Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980
Ratification / Accession:
06.05.2015
CCW Protocol (I) on Non-Detectable Fragments, 1980
Ratification / Accession:
06.05.2015
CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980
Ratification / Accession:
06.05.2015
Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993
Ratification / Accession:
14.08.1995
CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995
Ratification / Accession:
06.05.2015
Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997
Ratification / Accession:
09.10.2001
Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), amended Article 1, 2001
Ratification / Accession:
06.05.2015
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, 2017
Signature:
20.09.2017
Naval and Airwarfare
Cultural Property
Criminal Repression
Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998
Signature:
28.12.2000
Other treaties relating to IHL
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948
Ratification / Accession:
31.10.1963
Reservation / Declaration:
31.10.63
Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976
Ratification / Accession:
19.12.1991
OAU Convention on Mercenaries, 1977
Ratification / Accession:
11.01.2008
Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance, 2006
Signature:
06.02.2007
Related databases
Customary IHL database
ICRC National Implementation Database of IHL
Reference documents
States party to the main treaties
IHL_and_other_r... (561.20 kb)
IHL_and_other_r... (264.50 kb)
Map of States party to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols
File Type
icrc-annual-rep... (886.85 kb)
GVALNWB1/ICRC
Share on Twitter
Share on Facebook
Share on Google+
Share on LinkedIn
Print this page