Treaties, States parties, and Commentaries

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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:22.02.55

Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977

Signature:10.06.77

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:07.08.80

Reservation / Declaration: 07.08.80

Declaration Article 90: 07.08.1980

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:07.08.80

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:20.06.91

Reservation / Declaration: 25.07.91 09.06.93 24.06.94 05.09.95 14.06.96 26.11.96 20.03.97 06.11.98

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

Ratification / Accession:10.04.2002

Reservation / Declaration: 10.04.2002

Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005

Ratification / Accession:14.01.2009

Methods and Means of Warfare

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

Ratification / Accession:30.12.1918

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

Ratification / Accession:30.12.1918

Hague Declaration (XIV) on Explosives from Balloons, 1907

Ratification / Accession:30.12.1918

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

Ratification / Accession:26.06.1929

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:04.02.74

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:08.05.82

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

Ratification / Accession:08.05.82

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

Ratification / Accession:08.05.82

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:08.05.82

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:07.02.95

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:11.01.96

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

Ratification / Accession:03.04.98

Reservation / Declaration: 03.04.98

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997

Ratification / Accession:09.01.2012

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

Ratification / Accession:22.06.2004

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

Ratification / Accession:23.03.2005

Naval and Airwarfare

Hague Convention (VI) on Enemy Merchant Ships, 1907

Ratification / Accession:30.12.1918

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

Ratification / Accession:30.12.1918

Hague Convention (VIII) on Submarine Mines, 1907

Ratification / Accession:30.12.1918

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

Ratification / Accession:30.12.1918

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

Ratification / Accession:10.04.1922

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

Ratification / Accession:30.12.1918

Procès-verbal on Submarine Warfare of the Treaty of London, 1936

Ratification / Accession:18.02.1937

Cultural Property

Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:16.09.94

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:16.09.94

Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999

Ratification / Accession:09.11.2004

Criminal Repression

Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998

Ratification / Accession:29.12.2000

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

Ratification / Accession:30.12.2015

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

Ratification / Accession:30.12.2015

Amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, amended article 124, 2015

Ratification / Accession:23.09.2016

Other treaties relating to IHL

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

Ratification / Accession:30.12.1918

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

Ratification / Accession:30.12.1918

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948

Ratification / Accession:18.12.59

Reservation / Declaration: 22.12.89

Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976

Ratification / Accession:12.05.78

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

Signature:06.02.2007

Arms Trade Treaty, 2013

Ratification / Accession:02.04.2014

Reservation / Declaration: 02.04.2014

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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