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:09.11.1950

Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977

Signature:10.06.1977

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:11.12.1992

Reservation / Declaration: 11.12.92

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

Ratification / Accession:30.11.2005

Reservation / Declaration: 30.11.2005

Methods and Means of Warfare

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

Ratification / Accession:09.04.1930

Reservation / Declaration: 09.04.1930

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:15.07.1974

Reservation / Declaration: 15.07.74

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:01.03.1984

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

Ratification / Accession:01.03.1984

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

Ratification / Accession:01.03.1984

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:01.03.1984

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:03.09.1996

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:02.09.1999

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

Ratification / Accession:02.09.1999

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

Ratification / Accession:18.05.2005

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

Ratification / Accession:18.05.2005

Naval and Airwarfare

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:14.05.1954

Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:16.06.1958

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:16.06.1958

Criminal Repression

Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1945

Ratification / Accession:22.12.1945

Convention Statutory Limitations to War Crimes, 1968

Ratification / Accession:12.01.1971

Other treaties relating to IHL

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948

Ratification / Accession:27.08.1959

Reservation / Declaration: 27.08.59

Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976

Ratification / Accession:15.12.1978

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

Signature:06.02.2007

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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