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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:
26.02.1908
Final Act of the Geneva Conference, 1949
Signature:
12.08.1949
Geneva Conventions, 1949
Ratification / Accession:
20.02.1957
Reservation / Declaration:
20.02.57 12.09.2000
Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977
Signature:
10.06.1977
Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977
Signature:
12.12.1977
Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977
Signature:
12.12.1977
Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989
Ratification / Accession:
13.07.1994
Reservation / Declaration:
13.07.94
Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict, 2000
Signature:
21.09.2010
Methods and Means of Warfare
Hague Convention (II) on the Laws and Customs of War on Land, 1899
Ratification / Accession:
04.09.1900
Hague Declaration (IV,2) concerning Asphyxiating Gases, 1899
Ratification / Accession:
04.09.1900
Hague Declaration (IV,3) concerning Expanding Bullets, 1899
Ratification / Accession:
04.09.1900
Hague Convention (IV) on War on Land and its Annexed Regulations, 1907
Signature:
18.10.1907
Hague Convention (IX) on Bombardment by Naval Forces, 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:
05.11.1929
Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972
Ratification / Accession:
22.08.1973
Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993
Ratification / Accession:
03.11.1997
Reservation / Declaration:
03.11.97
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:
21.01.1939
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:
22.06.1959
Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954
Ratification / Accession:
22.06.1959
Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999
Ratification / Accession:
24.05.2005
Reservation / Declaration:
24.05.2005
Criminal Repression
Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998
Signature:
31.12.2000
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:
14.08.1956
Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976
Signature:
18.05.1977
Related databases
Customary IHL database
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