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- 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:26.03.1907

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

Ratification / Accession:05.09.1912

Final Act of the Geneva Conference, 1949

Signature:12.08.1949

Geneva Conventions, 1949

Ratification / Accession:01.07.1953

Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977

Signature:10.06.1977

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:29.08.1989

Declaration Article 90: 12.05.1993

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:29.08.1989

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:07.03.1994

Reservation / Declaration: 07.03.94

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

Ratification / Accession:04.08.2004

Reservation / Declaration: 25.01.2013

Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005

Ratification / Accession:27.01.2015

Methods and Means of Warfare

Hague Convention (II) on the Laws and Customs of War on Land, 1899

Ratification / Accession:12.07.1901

Hague Declaration (IV,2) concerning Asphyxiating Gases, 1899

Ratification / Accession:12.07.1901

Hague Declaration (IV,3) concerning Expanding Bullets, 1899

Ratification / Accession:12.07.1901

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

Ratification / Accession:05.09.1912

Hague Declaration (XIV) on Explosives from Balloons, 1907

Ratification / Accession:05.09.1912

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

Ratification / Accession:01.09.1936

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:23.03.1976

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:21.05.1996

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

Ratification / Accession:21.05.1996

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

Ratification / Accession:21.05.1996

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:21.05.1996

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:15.04.1997

Reservation / Declaration: 13.01.93

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:05.08.1999

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

Ratification / Accession:05.08.1999

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997

Ratification / Accession:14.06.1999

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

Ratification / Accession:13.06.2005

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

Ratification / Accession:13.06.2005

Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008

Ratification / Accession:10.07.2009

Naval and Airwarfare

Hague Convention (VI) on Enemy Merchant Ships, 1907

Ratification / Accession:05.09.1912

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

Ratification / Accession:05.09.1912

Hague Convention (VIII) on Submarine Mines, 1907

Ratification / Accession:05.09.1912

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

Ratification / Accession:05.09.1912

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

Ratification / Accession:05.09.1912

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

Ratification / Accession:05.09.1912

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:29.09.1961

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:29.09.1961

Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999

Ratification / Accession:30.06.2005

Criminal Repression

Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1945

Ratification / Accession:01.11.1945

Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998

Ratification / Accession:08.09.2000

Reservation / Declaration: 26.01.2012

Amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, amended article 8, 2010

Ratification / Accession:15.01.2013

Amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, articles 8bis, 15bis and 15ter, 2010

Ratification / Accession:15.01.2013

Other treaties relating to IHL

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

Ratification / Accession:05.09.1912

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

Ratification / Accession:05.09.1912

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948

Ratification / Accession:07.10.1981

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:03.06.2014

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