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

Hague Convention on Hospital Ships, 1904

Ratification / Accession:08.01.1907

Final Act of the Geneva Conference, 1949

Signature:12.08.1949

Geneva Conventions, 1949

Ratification / Accession:03.08.1951

Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977

Signature:10.06.1977

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:14.12.1981

Declaration Article 90: 14.12.1981

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:14.12.1981

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:08.01.1991

Reservation / Declaration: 25.10.94 05.09.95 04.06.96 27.06.96 29.11.96 04.03.97 13.03.97 09.02.98

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

Ratification / Accession:23.09.2003

Reservation / Declaration: 23.09.2003

Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005

Ratification / Accession:13.06.2006

Methods and Means of Warfare

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

Ratification / Accession:05.07.1907

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:19.09.1910

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

Ratification / Accession:19.09.1910

Hague Declaration (XIV) on Explosives from Balloons, 1907

Ratification / Accession:19.09.1910

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

Ratification / Accession:27.07.1932

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:01.08.1973

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:07.06.1983

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

Ratification / Accession:07.06.1983

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

Ratification / Accession:07.06.1983

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:07.06.1983

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:07.04.1994

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:20.04.1998

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

Ratification / Accession:20.04.1998

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997

Ratification / Accession:09.07.1998

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

Ratification / Accession:18.11.2003

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

Ratification / Accession:08.12.2005

Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008

Ratification / Accession:03.12.2008

Reservation / Declaration: 03.12.2008

Naval and Airwarfare

Hague Convention (VI) on Enemy Merchant Ships, 1907

Ratification / Accession:19.09.1910

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

Ratification / Accession:19.09.1910

Hague Convention (VIII) on Submarine Mines, 1907

Ratification / Accession:19.09.1910

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

Ratification / Accession:19.09.1910

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

Ratification / Accession:19.09.1910

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

Ratification / Accession:19.09.1910

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

Ratification / Accession:21.05.1937

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:19.09.1961

Reservation / Declaration: 14.05.54

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:19.09.1961

Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999

Ratification / Accession:05.09.2016

Criminal Repression

Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1945

Ratification / Accession:20.10.1945

Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998

Ratification / Accession:16.02.2000

Reservation / Declaration: 16.02.2000

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

Ratification / Accession:10.06.2013

Other treaties relating to IHL

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

Ratification / Accession:19.09.1910

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

Ratification / Accession:19.09.1910

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948

Ratification / Accession:22.07.1949

Reservation / Declaration: 10.04.52 22.12.89 14.10.96

Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976

Ratification / Accession:15.02.1979

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

Ratification / Accession:22.08.2019

Reservation / Declaration: 22.08.2019

Arms Trade Treaty, 2013

Ratification / Accession:12.02.2014

Reservation / Declaration: 12.02.2014

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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