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

Hague Convention on Hospital Ships, 1904

Ratification / Accession:10.04.1907

Final Act of the Geneva Conference, 1949

Signature:12.08.1949

Geneva Conventions, 1949

Ratification / Accession:28.06.51

Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977

Signature:10.06.77

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:11.04.2001

Reservation / Declaration: 11.04.2001

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:24.02.84

Reservation / Declaration: 24.02.84

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:07.08.90

Reservation / Declaration: 07.08.90

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

Ratification / Accession:05.02.2003

Reservation / Declaration: 05.02.2003

Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005

Ratification / Accession:17.07.2009

Methods and Means of Warfare

Hague Convention (II) on the Laws and Customs of War on Land, 1899

Ratification / Accession:04.09.1900

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

Ratification / Accession:04.09.1900

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

Ratification / Accession:04.09.1900

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

Ratification / Accession:07.10.1910

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

Ratification / Accession:07.10.1910

Reservation / Declaration: 07.10.1910

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

Ratification / Accession:10.05.1926

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:27.09.84

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:04.03.88

Reservation / Declaration: 10.04.81

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

Ratification / Accession:04.03.88

Reservation / Declaration: 10.04.81

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

Ratification / Accession:04.03.88

Reservation / Declaration: 10.04.81

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:18.07.2002

Reservation / Declaration: 18.07.2002

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:02.03.95

Reservation / Declaration: 13.01.93

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:30.06.98

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

Ratification / Accession:23.07.98

Reservation / Declaration: 23.07.98

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997

Ratification / Accession:23.07.98

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

Ratification / Accession:10.12.2002

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

Ratification / Accession:31.10.2006

Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008

Ratification / Accession:25.09.2009

Naval and Airwarfare

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

Ratification / Accession:07.10.1910

Hague Convention (VIII) on Submarine Mines, 1907

Ratification / Accession:07.10.1910

Reservation / Declaration: 07.10.1910

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

Ratification / Accession:07.10.1910

Reservation / Declaration: 07.10.1910

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

Ratification / Accession:07.10.1910

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

Ratification / Accession:07.10.1910

London Treaty on Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armaments, 1930

Ratification / Accession:06.11.1936

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

Signature:06.11.1936

Cultural Property

Final Act on the Protection of Cultural Property, The Hague, 1954

Signature:14.05.54

Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:07.06.57

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:07.06.57

Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999

Ratification / Accession:20.03.2017

Criminal Repression

Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1945

Signature:08.08.1945

European Convention on Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes, 1974

Signature:25.01.74

Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998

Ratification / Accession:09.06.2000

Reservation / Declaration: 09.06.2000

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

Ratification / Accession:19.03.2018

Other treaties relating to IHL

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

Ratification / Accession:07.10.1910

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

Ratification / Accession:07.10.1910

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948

Ratification / Accession:14.10.50

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

Ratification / Accession:23.09.2008

Reservation / Declaration: 09.12.2008

Arms Trade Treaty, 2013

Ratification / Accession: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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