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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
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