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

Hague Convention on Hospital Ships, 1904

Ratification / Accession:14.08.1907

Final Act of the Geneva Conference, 1949

Signature:12.08.1949

Geneva Conventions, 1949

Ratification / Accession:17.12.1951

Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977

Signature:10.06.1977

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:27.02.1986

Reservation / Declaration: 27.02.86

Declaration Article 90: 27.02.1986

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:27.02.1986

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:05.09.1991

Reservation / Declaration: 18.07.94 25.09.95 14.06.96 04.10.96 23.12.96 02.04.98

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

Ratification / Accession:09.05.2002

Reservation / Declaration: 09.05.2002

Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005

Ratification / Accession:29.01.2009

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

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

Ratification / Accession:03.04.1928

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:30.05.1975

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:20.01.1995

Reservation / Declaration: 10.04.81

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

Ratification / Accession:20.01.1995

Reservation / Declaration: 10.04.81

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

Ratification / Accession:20.01.1995

Reservation / Declaration: 10.04.81

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:20.01.1995

Reservation / Declaration: 10.04.81

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:08.12.1995

Reservation / Declaration: 08.12.95

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:13.01.1999

Reservation / Declaration: 13.01.99

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

Ratification / Accession:13.01.1999

Reservation / Declaration: 13.01.99

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997

Ratification / Accession:23.04.1999

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

Ratification / Accession:01.09.2004

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

Ratification / Accession:11.02.2010

Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008

Ratification / Accession:21.09.2011

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

London Treaty on Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armaments, 1930

Ratification / Accession:06.11.1936

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:09.05.1958

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:09.05.1958

Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999

Ratification / Accession:10.07.2009

Criminal Repression

Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998

Ratification / Accession:26.07.1999

Amendment to article 124 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

Ratification / Accession:13.04.2018

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:04.06.1952

Reservation / Declaration: 29.12.89

Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1981

Convention on Mercenaries, 1989

Ratification / Accession:21.08.1995

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

Ratification / Accession:08.10.2015

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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