Treaties, States parties, and Commentaries - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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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:23.09.57

Reservation / Declaration: 23.09.57 19.11.75 28.03.85 13.06.97

Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977

Signature:10.06.77

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:28.01.98

Reservation / Declaration: 28.01.98 02.07.2002 15.06.2011 07.01.2013

Declaration Article 90: 17.05.1999

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:28.01.98

Reservation / Declaration: 02.07.2002 15.06.2011 07.01.2013

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:16.12.91

Reservation / Declaration: 16.12.91 07.09.94 20.12.2000 29.04.2014 04.11.2020

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

Ratification / Accession:24.06.2003

Reservation / Declaration: 24.06.2003 29.04.2014 25.09.2020 04.11.2020

Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005

Ratification / Accession:23.10.2009

Reservation / Declaration: 15.06.2011 07.01.2013

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:30.08.1907

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

Ratification / Accession:30.08.1907

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

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

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

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

Reservation / Declaration: 27.11.1909

Hague Declaration (XIV) on Explosives from Balloons, 1907

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

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

Ratification / Accession:09.04.1930

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:26.03.75

Reservation / Declaration: 27.04.72 26.03.75

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:13.02.95

Reservation / Declaration: 13.02.95

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

Ratification / Accession:13.02.95

Reservation / Declaration: 13.02.95

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

Ratification / Accession:13.02.95

Reservation / Declaration: 13.02.95

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:13.02.95

Reservation / Declaration: 13.02.95

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:13.05.96

Reservation / Declaration: 13.01.93

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:11.02.99

Reservation / Declaration: 11.02.99

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

Ratification / Accession:11.02.99

Reservation / Declaration: 11.02.99

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997

Ratification / Accession:31.07.98

Reservation / Declaration: 31.07.98

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

Ratification / Accession:25.07.2002

Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008

Ratification / Accession:04.05.2010

Reservation / Declaration: 21.02.2014

Naval and Airwarfare

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

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

Hague Convention (VIII) on Submarine Mines, 1907

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

Reservation / Declaration: 27.11.1909

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

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

Reservation / Declaration: 27.11.1909

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

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

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

Signature:18.10.1907

London Treaty on Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armaments, 1930

Ratification / Accession:27.10.1930

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:12.09.2017

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:12.09.2017

Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999

Ratification / Accession:12.09.2017

Criminal Repression

Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1945

Signature:08.08.1945

Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998

Ratification / Accession:04.10.2001

Other treaties relating to IHL

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

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

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

Signature:18.10.1907

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948

Ratification / Accession:30.01.70

Reservation / Declaration: 30.01.70 21.11.75 26.08.83 30.12.87 22.12.89 20.03.96

Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976

Ratification / Accession:16.05.78

Arms Trade Treaty, 2013

Ratification / Accession:02.04.2014

Reservation / Declaration: 02.04.2014

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Map of States party to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols

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