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

Hague Convention on Hospital Ships, 1904

Ratification / Accession:24.03.1906

Final Act of the Geneva Conference, 1949

Signature:12.08.1949

Geneva Conventions, 1949

Ratification / Accession:14.05.52

Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977

Signature:10.06.77

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:19.10.87

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:19.10.87

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:06.06.90

Reservation / Declaration: 26.01.90

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

Ratification / Accession:09.05.2002

Reservation / Declaration: 09.05.2002

Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005

Ratification / Accession:14.03.2008

Methods and Means of Warfare

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

Ratification / Accession:02.05.1906

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

Ratification / Accession:15.03.1911

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

Ratification / Accession:15.03.1911

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

Ratification / Accession:03.05.83

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:19.09.73

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:21.07.83

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

Ratification / Accession:21.07.83

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

Ratification / Accession:21.07.83

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:21.07.83

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:12.02.2003

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:30.08.2002

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

Ratification / Accession:29.10.2001

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997

Ratification / Accession:26.03.99

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

Ratification / Accession:13.02.2009

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

Ratification / Accession:28.02.2008

Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008

Ratification / Accession:03.11.2010

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, 2017

Signature:20.09.2017

Naval and Airwarfare

Hague Convention (VI) on Enemy Merchant Ships, 1907

Ratification / Accession:15.03.1911

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

Ratification / Accession:15.03.1911

Hague Convention (VIII) on Submarine Mines, 1907

Ratification / Accession:15.03.1911

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

Ratification / Accession:15.03.1911

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

Ratification / Accession:15.03.1911

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

Ratification / Accession:15.03.1911

Havana Convention on Maritime Neutrality, 1928

Signature:20.02.1928

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

Ratification / Accession:08.09.1938

Cultural Property

Roerich Pact for the Protection of Artistic and Scientific Institutions, 1935

Ratification / Accession:16.09.1936

Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:02.10.85

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:19.05.94

Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999

Ratification / Accession:04.02.2005

Criminal Repression

Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998

Ratification / Accession:02.04.2012

Reservation / Declaration: 02.04.2012

Other treaties relating to IHL

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

Ratification / Accession:15.03.1911

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

Ratification / Accession:15.03.1911

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948

Ratification / Accession:13.01.50

Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976

Ratification / Accession:21.03.88

Reservation / Declaration: 21.03.88

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

Signature:06.02.2007

Arms Trade Treaty, 2013

Ratification / Accession:12.07.2016

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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