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

Final Act of the Geneva Conference, 1949

Signature:12.08.1949

Geneva Conventions, 1949

Ratification / Accession:02.05.1959

Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977

Signature:10.06.1977

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:08.02.1988

Reservation / Declaration: 08.02.88

Declaration Article 90: 08.02.1988

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:08.02.1988

Reservation / Declaration: 08.02.88

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:06.04.1993

Reservation / Declaration: 06.04.93

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

Ratification / Accession:12.11.2001

Reservation / Declaration: 12.11.2001

Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005

Ratification / Accession:23.10.2013

Methods and Means of Warfare

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

Ratification / Accession:24.05.1930

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:18.12.1972

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:18.10.1993

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

Ratification / Accession:18.10.1993

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

Ratification / Accession:18.10.1993

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:18.10.1993

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:15.07.1996

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:08.01.1998

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

Ratification / Accession:08.01.1998

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997

Ratification / Accession:27.01.1999

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

Ratification / Accession:21.08.2007

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

Ratification / Accession:02.10.2007

Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008

Ratification / Accession:22.12.2009

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, 2017

Ratification / Accession:31.07.2018

Reservation / Declaration: 31.07.2018

Naval and Airwarfare

London Treaty on Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armaments, 1930

Ratification / Accession:27.10.1930

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

Signature:06.11.1936

Cultural Property

Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:24.07.2008

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:17.10.2013

Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999

Ratification / Accession:23.10.2013

Criminal Repression

Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1945

Ratification / Accession:19.11.1945

Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998

Ratification / Accession:07.09.2000

Reservation / Declaration: 07.09.2000

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