Treaties, States parties, and Commentaries

Treaties and Documents
- Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Additional Protocols, and their Commentaries
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Historical Treaties and Documents
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Liberia

Victims of Armed Conflicts

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

Ratification / Accession:04.02.1914

Geneva Conventions, 1949

Ratification / Accession:29.03.1954

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:30.06.1988

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:30.06.1988

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:04.06.1993

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

Signature:22.09.2004

Methods and Means of Warfare

Hague Convention (IV) on War on Land and its Annexed Regulations, 1907

Ratification / Accession:04.02.1914

Hague Declaration (XIV) on Explosives from Balloons, 1907

Ratification / Accession:04.02.1914

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

Ratification / Accession:17.06.1927

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:04.11.2016

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:16.09.2005

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

Ratification / Accession:16.09.2005

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

Ratification / Accession:16.09.2005

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:16.09.2005

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:23.02.2006

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:16.09.2005

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

Ratification / Accession:16.09.2005

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997

Ratification / Accession:23.12.1999

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

Ratification / Accession:16.09.2005

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

Ratification / Accession:16.09.2005

Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008

Signature:03.12.2008

Naval and Airwarfare

Hague Convention (VI) on Enemy Merchant Ships, 1907

Ratification / Accession:04.02.1914

Hague Convention (VII) on Conversion of Merchant Ships, 1907

Ratification / Accession:04.02.1914

Hague Convention (VIII) on Submarine Mines, 1907

Ratification / Accession:11.02.1914

Hague Convention (IX) on Bombardment by Naval Forces, 1907

Ratification / Accession:04.02.1914

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

Ratification / Accession:04.02.1914

Hague Convention (XIII) on Neutral Powers in Naval War, 1907

Ratification / Accession:04.02.1914

Cultural Property

Criminal Repression

Convention Statutory Limitations to War Crimes, 1968

Ratification / Accession:16.09.2005

Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998

Ratification / Accession:22.09.2004

Other treaties relating to IHL

Hague Convention (III) on the Opening of Hostilites, 1907

Ratification / Accession:04.02.1914

Hague Convention (V) on Neutral Powers in case of War on Land, 1907

Ratification / Accession:04.02.1914

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948

Ratification / Accession:09.06.1950

Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976

Signature:18.05.1977

OAU Convention on Mercenaries, 1977

Ratification / Accession:09.06.1982

Convention on Mercenaries, 1989

Ratification / Accession:16.09.2005

Arms Trade Treaty, 2013

Ratification / Accession:21.04.2015

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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