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Victims of Armed Conflicts
Hague Convention (XI) on Restrictions of the Right of Capture, 1907
Ratification / Accession:
02.02.1910
Geneva Conventions, 1949
Ratification / Accession:
11.04.1957
Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977
Ratification / Accession:
20.12.2006
Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977
Ratification / Accession:
20.12.2006
Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989
Ratification / Accession:
08.06.1995
Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict, 2000
Signature:
15.08.2002
Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005
Signature:
06.12.2006
Methods and Means of Warfare
Hague Convention (II) on the Laws and Customs of War on Land, 1899
Ratification / Accession:
24.05.1907
Hague Convention (IV) on War on Land and its Annexed Regulations, 1907
Ratification / Accession:
02.02.1910
Hague Declaration (XIV) on Explosives from Balloons, 1907
Ratification / Accession:
02.02.1910
Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972
Signature:
10.04.1972
Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993
Ratification / Accession:
22.02.2006
Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997
Ratification / Accession:
15.02.2006
Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008
Signature:
28.10.2009
Naval and Airwarfare
Hague Convention (VI) on Enemy Merchant Ships, 1907
Ratification / Accession:
02.02.1910
Hague Convention (VII) on Conversion of Merchant Ships, 1907
Ratification / Accession:
02.02.1910
Hague Convention (VIII) on Submarine Mines, 1907
Ratification / Accession:
02.02.1910
Hague Convention (IX) on Bombardment by Naval Forces, 1907
Ratification / Accession:
02.02.1910
Hague Convention (XI) on Restrictions of the Right of Capture, 1907
Ratification / Accession:
02.02.1910
Hague Convention (XIII) on Neutral Powers in Naval War, 1907
Ratification / Accession:
02.02.1910
Havana Convention on Maritime Neutrality, 1928
Ratification / Accession:
09.03.1933
Procès-verbal on Submarine Warfare of the Treaty of London, 1936
Ratification / Accession:
23.01.1937
Cultural Property
Roerich Pact for the Protection of Artistic and Scientific Institutions, 1935
Signature:
15.04.1935
Criminal Repression
Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1945
Ratification / Accession:
03.11.1945
Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998
Signature:
26.02.1999
Other treaties relating to IHL
Hague Convention (III) on the Opening of Hostilites, 1907
Ratification / Accession:
02.02.1910
Hague Convention (V) on Neutral Powers in case of War on Land, 1907
Ratification / Accession:
02.02.1910
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948
Ratification / Accession:
14.10.1959
Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance, 2006
Signature:
06.02.2007
Arms Trade Treaty, 2013
Signature:
21.03.2014
Related databases
Customary IHL database
ICRC National Implementation Database
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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