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Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Additional Protocols, and their Commentaries
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Geneva Conventions, 1949
Ratification / Accession:
20.06.1961
Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977
Signature:
10.06.1977
Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977
Ratification / Accession:
10.10.1988
Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977
Ratification / Accession:
10.10.1988
Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989
Ratification / Accession:
19.04.1991
Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict, 2000
Ratification / Accession:
25.09.2012
Methods and Means of Warfare
Geneva Protocol on Asphyxiating or Poisonous Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods, 1925
Ratification / Accession:
15.10.1968
Reservation / Declaration:
15.10.68
Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972
Ratification / Accession:
09.07.1973
Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980
Signature:
26.01.1982
Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993
Ratification / Accession:
20.05.1999
Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997
Ratification / Accession:
27.09.2001
Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008
Signature:
12.06.2009
Naval and Airwarfare
Cultural Property
Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954
Ratification / Accession:
05.06.1961
Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954
Ratification / Accession:
05.06.1961
Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999
Ratification / Accession:
21.10.2005
Criminal Repression
Convention Statutory Limitations to War Crimes, 1968
Ratification / Accession:
01.12.1970
Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998
Ratification / Accession:
27.09.2001
Other treaties relating to IHL
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948
Ratification / Accession:
27.07.2009
OAU Convention on Mercenaries, 1977
Ratification / Accession:
24.06.1986
Convention on Mercenaries, 1989
Signature:
04.04.1990
Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance, 2006
Ratification / Accession:
27.07.2009
Arms Trade Treaty, 2013
Ratification / Accession:
12.08.2013
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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