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Victims of Armed Conflicts

Geneva Conventions, 1949

Ratification / Accession:28.02.1959

Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977

Signature:10.06.1977

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:12.07.1991

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

Ratification / Accession:08.09.2000

Reservation / Declaration: 08.09.2000

Methods and Means of Warfare

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

Ratification / Accession:20.01.1954

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:18.11.1986

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:24.09.2004

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

Ratification / Accession:24.09.2004

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

Ratification / Accession:24.09.2004

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:24.09.2004

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:19.08.1994

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:24.09.2004

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

Ratification / Accession:24.09.2004

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997

Ratification / Accession:13.12.2017

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

Ratification / Accession:24.09.2004

Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008

Ratification / Accession:01.03.2018

Naval and Airwarfare

Cultural Property

Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:11.05.2004

Criminal Repression

Other treaties relating to IHL

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948

Ratification / Accession:02.10.1950

Reservation / Declaration: 06.02.51

Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976

Ratification / Accession:25.04.1978

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

Ratification / Accession:25.05.2016

Reservation / Declaration: 25.05.2016

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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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