Treaties, States parties, and Commentaries

Treaties and Documents
- Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Additional Protocols, and their Commentaries
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Islamic Republic of Iran

Victims of Armed Conflicts

Hague Convention on Hospital Ships, 1904

Ratification / Accession:26.02.1908

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

Signature:18.10.1907

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 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

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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