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:26.03.1907

Final Act of the Geneva Conference, 1949

Signature:12.08.1949

Geneva Conventions, 1949

Ratification / Accession:05.06.1956

Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977

Signature:10.06.1977

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:31.03.1989

Reservation / Declaration: 22.03.78

Declaration Article 90: 04.02.1998

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:15.02.1993

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:11.05.1993

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

Ratification / Accession:22.10.2003

Reservation / Declaration: 22.10.2003

Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005

Ratification / Accession:26.10.2009

Methods and Means of Warfare

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

Ratification / Accession:04.04.1901

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

Ratification / Accession:04.04.1901

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

Ratification / Accession:04.04.1901

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

Signature:18.10.1907

Hague Declaration (XIV) on Explosives from Balloons, 1907

Signature:18.10.1907

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

Ratification / Accession:30.05.1931

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:10.12.1975

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:28.01.1992

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

Ratification / Accession:28.01.1992

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

Ratification / Accession:28.01.1992

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:28.01.1992

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:22.12.1994

Reservation / Declaration: 22.12.94

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:05.08.1997

Reservation / Declaration: 05.08.97

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

Ratification / Accession:20.01.1999

Reservation / Declaration: 20.01.99

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997

Ratification / Accession:25.09.2003

Reservation / Declaration: 03.12.97

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

Ratification / Accession:26.11.2004

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

Ratification / Accession:21.10.2014

Naval and Airwarfare

Hague Convention (VI) on Enemy Merchant Ships, 1907

Signature:18.10.1907

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

Signature:18.10.1907

Hague Convention (VIII) on Submarine Mines, 1907

Signature:18.10.1907

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

Signature:18.10.1907

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

Signature:18.10.1907

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

Signature:18.10.1907

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

Ratification / Accession:11.01.1937

Cultural Property

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

Signature:14.05.1954

Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:09.02.1981

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:09.02.1981

Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999

Ratification / Accession:20.04.2005

Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999

Signature:17.05.1999

Criminal Repression

Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1945

Ratification / Accession:10.09.1945

Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998

Ratification / Accession:15.05.2002

Other treaties relating to IHL

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

Signature:18.10.1907

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:08.12.1954

Reservation / Declaration: 26.01.90

Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976

Ratification / Accession:23.08.1983

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

Ratification / Accession:09.07.2015

Arms Trade Treaty, 2013

Ratification / Accession:29.02.2016

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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