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

Final Act of the Geneva Conference, 1949

Signature:12.08.1949

Geneva Conventions, 1949

Ratification / Accession:27.09.62

Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977

Signature:10.06.77

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:19.05.99

Reservation / Declaration: 19.05.99

Declaration Article 90: 19.05.1999

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:19.05.99

Reservation / Declaration: 19.05.99

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:28.09.92

Reservation / Declaration: 28.09.92 05.09.95 26.06.96 13.03.97

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

Ratification / Accession:18.11.2002

Reservation / Declaration: 18.11.2002 12.01.2015

Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005

Signature:20.06.2006

Methods and Means of Warfare

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

Ratification / Accession:29.08.1930

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:27.10.72

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:13.03.95

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

Ratification / Accession:13.03.95

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

Ratification / Accession:13.03.95

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:13.03.95

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:24.06.96

Reservation / Declaration: 24.06.96

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:27.03.97

Reservation / Declaration: 27.03.97

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

Ratification / Accession:27.03.97

Reservation / Declaration: 27.03.97

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997

Ratification / Accession:03.12.97

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

Ratification / Accession:08.11.2006

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

Ratification / Accession:08.11.2006

Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008

Ratification / Accession:03.12.2008

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, 2017

Ratification / Accession:06.08.2020

Naval and Airwarfare

London Treaty on Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armaments, 1930

Ratification / Accession:31.12.1930

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:17.05.2018

Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999

Ratification / Accession:17.05.2018

Criminal Repression

Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998

Ratification / Accession:11.04.2002

Amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, articles 8bis, 15bis and 15ter, 2010

Ratification / Accession:27.09.2018

Other treaties relating to IHL

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948

Ratification / Accession:22.06.76

Reservation / Declaration: 22.12.89

Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976

Ratification / Accession:16.12.82

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

Signature:29.03.2007

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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