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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:
10.04.1951
Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977
Signature:
10.06.1977
Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977
Ratification / Accession:
23.07.1997
Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977
Ratification / Accession:
23.07.1997
Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989
Ratification / Accession:
14.05.1991
Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict, 2000
Signature:
11.02.2002
Methods and Means of Warfare
Geneva Protocol on Asphyxiating or Poisonous Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods, 1925
Ratification / Accession:
17.04.1969
Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972
Ratification / Accession:
26.03.1975
Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980
Ratification / Accession:
05.04.2017
CCW Protocol (I) on Non-Detectable Fragments, 1980
Ratification / Accession:
05.04.2017
CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980
Ratification / Accession:
05.04.2017
Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993
Ratification / Accession:
20.11.2008
CCW Protocol (II) prohibiting Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices, amended, 1996
Ratification / Accession:
05.04.2017
Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), amended Article 1, 2001
Ratification / Accession:
05.04.2017
Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008
Ratification / Accession:
05.11.2010
Naval and Airwarfare
Cultural Property
Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954
Ratification / Accession:
01.06.1960
Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954
Ratification / Accession:
01.06.1960
Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999
Ratification / Accession:
08.10.2020
Criminal Repression
Other treaties relating to IHL
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948
Ratification / Accession:
17.12.1953
Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976
Signature:
18.05.1977
Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance, 2006
Signature:
06.02.2007
Arms Trade Treaty, 2013
Ratification / Accession:
09.05.2019
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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