Treaties, States parties, and Commentaries

Treaties and Documents
- Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Additional Protocols, and their Commentaries
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Victims of Armed Conflicts

Geneva Conventions, 1949

Ratification / Accession:24.12.1991

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:24.12.1991

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:24.12.1991

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:14.04.1992

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

Ratification / Accession:19.12.2005

Reservation / Declaration: 19.12.2005

Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005

Ratification / Accession:02.04.2007

Methods and Means of Warfare

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

Ratification / Accession:03.06.1931

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:06.02.1997

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:04.01.1993

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

Ratification / Accession:04.01.1993

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

Ratification / Accession:04.01.1993

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:04.01.1993

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:23.07.1996

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:11.03.1998

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

Ratification / Accession:22.08.2002

Reservation / Declaration: 22.08.2002

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997

Ratification / Accession:01.07.2005

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

Ratification / Accession:23.04.2003

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

Ratification / Accession:16.09.2009

Naval and Airwarfare

Procès-verbal on Submarine Warfare of the Treaty of London, 1936

Ratification / Accession:07.03.1938

Cultural Property

Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:19.12.2003

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:19.12.2003

Criminal Repression

Convention Statutory Limitations to War Crimes, 1968

Ratification / Accession:14.04.1992

Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998

Ratification / Accession:28.06.2002

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

Ratification / Accession:25.09.2014

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

Ratification / Accession:25.09.2014

Other treaties relating to IHL

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948

Ratification / Accession:14.04.1992

Arms Trade Treaty, 2013

Ratification / Accession:02.04.2014

Reservation / Declaration: 02.04.2014

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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