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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
Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW ), amended Article 1, 2001
Ratification / Accession:
24.09.2004
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
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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