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

Final Act of the Geneva Conference, 1949

Signature:12.08.1949

Geneva Conventions, 1949

Ratification / Accession:02.10.1969

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:08.04.1994

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:08.04.1994

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:14.05.1991

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

Ratification / Accession:14.05.2014

Reservation / Declaration: 14.05.2014

Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005

Signature:13.03.2006

Methods and Means of Warfare

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

Ratification / Accession:09.08.1935

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

Ratification / Accession:09.08.1935

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

Ratification / Accession:05.08.1935

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

Ratification / Accession:05.08.1935

Hague Declaration (XIV) on Explosives from Balloons, 1907

Ratification / Accession:02.08.1935

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

Ratification / Accession:07.10.1935

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:26.05.1975

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:13.05.1996

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997

Ratification / Accession:17.12.2004

Naval and Airwarfare

Hague Convention (VI) on Enemy Merchant Ships, 1907

Ratification / Accession:05.08.1935

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

Ratification / Accession:05.08.1935

Hague Convention (VIII) on Submarine Mines, 1907

Ratification / Accession:05.08.1935

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

Ratification / Accession:05.08.1935

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

Ratification / Accession:05.08.1935

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

Ratification / Accession:05.08.1935

Cultural Property

Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:31.08.2015

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:31.08.2015

Criminal Repression

Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1945

Ratification / Accession:09.10.1945

Other treaties relating to IHL

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

Ratification / Accession:05.08.1935

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

Ratification / Accession:05.08.1935

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948

Ratification / Accession:01.07.1949

Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976

Signature:18.05.1977

OAU Convention on Mercenaries, 1977

Ratification / Accession:16.06.1982

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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