Treaties, States parties, and Commentaries

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

Final Act of the Geneva Conference, 1949

Signature:12.08.1949

Geneva Conventions, 1949

Ratification / Accession:17.12.53

Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977

Signature:10.06.77

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:19.07.99

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:19.07.99

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:05.10.90

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

Ratification / Accession:17.03.2005

Reservation / Declaration: 17.03.2005

Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005

Ratification / Accession:02.04.2009

Methods and Means of Warfare

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

Ratification / Accession:17.05.1907

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

Ratification / Accession:11.10.1907

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

Ratification / Accession:11.10.1907

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

Ratification / Accession:16.12.1909

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

Ratification / Accession:16.12.1909

Hague Declaration (XIV) on Explosives from Balloons, 1907

Ratification / Accession:16.12.1909

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

Ratification / Accession:05.10.90

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:07.08.75

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:05.12.2000

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

Ratification / Accession:05.12.2000

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:05.12.2000

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:05.10.99

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:05.12.2000

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

Ratification / Accession:05.12.2000

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997

Ratification / Accession:30.11.98

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

Ratification / Accession:06.09.2007

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

Ratification / Accession:15.09.2005

Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008

Ratification / Accession:02.11.2009

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, 2017

Ratification / Accession:19.07.2018

Naval and Airwarfare

Hague Convention (VI) on Enemy Merchant Ships, 1907

Ratification / Accession:16.12.1909

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

Ratification / Accession:16.12.1909

Hague Convention (VIII) on Submarine Mines, 1907

Ratification / Accession:16.12.1909

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

Ratification / Accession:16.12.1909

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

Ratification / Accession:16.12.1909

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

Ratification / Accession:16.12.1909

Havana Convention on Maritime Neutrality, 1928

Ratification / Accession:12.01.1931

Cultural Property

Roerich Pact for the Protection of Artistic and Scientific Institutions, 1935

Signature:15.04.1935

Final Act on the Protection of Cultural Property, The Hague, 1954

Signature:14.05.54

Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:25.11.59

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:25.11.59

Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999

Ratification / Accession:01.06.2001

Criminal Repression

Convention Statutory Limitations to War Crimes, 1968

Ratification / Accession:03.09.86

Other treaties relating to IHL

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

Ratification / Accession:16.12.1909

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

Ratification / Accession:16.12.1909

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948

Ratification / Accession:29.01.52

Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976

Ratification / Accession:06.09.2007

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Map of States party to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols

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