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

Hague Convention on Hospital Ships, 1904

Ratification / Accession:26.03.1907

Final Act of the Geneva Conference, 1949

Signature:12.08.1949

Geneva Conventions, 1949

Ratification / Accession:03.08.54

Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977

Signature:10.06.77

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:26.06.87

Reservation / Declaration: 26.06.87

Declaration Article 90: 26.06.1987

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:26.06.87

Reservation / Declaration: 26.06.87

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:06.02.95

Reservation / Declaration: 06.02.95 11.06.96 14.06.96 25.06.96 06.11.96 03.03.97 06.03.97 10.02.98 06.04.98

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

Ratification / Accession:24.09.2009

Reservation / Declaration: 23.09.2020

Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005

Ratification / Accession:13.12.2006

Reservation / Declaration: 13.12.2006

Methods and Means of Warfare

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

Ratification / Accession:04.09.1900

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

Ratification / Accession:04.09.1900

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

Ratification / Accession:04.09.1900

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

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

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

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

Hague Declaration (XIV) on Explosives from Balloons, 1907

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

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

Ratification / Accession:31.10.1930

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:22.06.81

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:18.06.87

Reservation / Declaration: 18.06.87 28.04.2014

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

Ratification / Accession:18.06.87

Reservation / Declaration: 18.06.87 28.04.2014

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

Ratification / Accession:18.06.87

Reservation / Declaration: 18.06.87 28.04.2014

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:18.06.87

Reservation / Declaration: 18.06.87 28.04.2014

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:30.06.95

Reservation / Declaration: 14.01.93

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:25.03.99

Reservation / Declaration: 25.03.99 28.04.2014

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

Ratification / Accession:25.03.99

Reservation / Declaration: 25.03.99 28.04.2014

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997

Ratification / Accession:12.04.99

Reservation / Declaration: 21.02.2014

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

Ratification / Accession:19.05.2004

Reservation / Declaration: 28.04.2014

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

Ratification / Accession:18.07.2005

Reservation / Declaration: 28.04.2014

Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008

Ratification / Accession:23.02.2011

Naval and Airwarfare

Hague Convention (VI) on Enemy Merchant Ships, 1907

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

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

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

Hague Convention (VIII) on Submarine Mines, 1907

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

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

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

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

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

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

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

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

Ratification / Accession:30.09.1937

Cultural Property

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:14.10.58

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:14.10.58

Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999

Ratification / Accession:30.01.2007

Criminal Repression

Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1945

Ratification / Accession:25.09.1945

European Convention on Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes, 1974

Ratification / Accession:25.11.81

Reservation / Declaration: 25.11.81

Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998

Ratification / Accession:17.07.2001

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

Ratification / Accession:23.09.2016

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

Ratification / Accession:23.09.2016

Amendment to article 124 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

Ratification / Accession:20.03.2017

Reservation / Declaration: 20.03.2017

Amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, amended article 8 (Weapons which use microbial or other biological agents, or toxins), 2017

Ratification / Accession:21.04.2020

Reservation / Declaration: 21.04.2020

Amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, amended article 8 (Weapons the primary effect of which is to injure by fragments undetectable by x-rays in the human body), 2017

Ratification / Accession:21.04.2020

Reservation / Declaration: 21.04.2020

Amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, amended article 8 (Blinding laser weapons), 2017

Ratification / Accession:21.04.2020

Reservation / Declaration: 21.04.2020

Amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, amended article 8 (Intentionally using starvation of civilians), 2019

Ratification / Accession:04.12.2020

Other treaties relating to IHL

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

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

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

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948

Ratification / Accession:20.06.66

Reservation / Declaration: 20.06.66 27.12.89 23.02.96

Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976

Ratification / Accession:15.04.83

Reservation / Declaration: 15.04.83

Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance, 2006

Ratification / Accession:23.03.2011

Reservation / Declaration: 23.03.2011 21.12.2017

Arms Trade Treaty, 2013

Ratification / Accession:18.12.2014

Related databases

Customary IHL database

ICRC National Implementation Database of IHL

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

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