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Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Additional Protocols, and their Commentaries
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Victims of Armed Conflicts
Geneva Conventions, 1949
Ratification / Accession:
26.05.1976
Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989
Ratification / Accession:
02.03.1993
Methods and Means of Warfare
Geneva Protocol on Asphyxiating or Poisonous Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods, 1925
Ratification / Accession:
02.09.1980
Reservation / Declaration:
02.09.80
Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972
Ratification / Accession:
27.10.1980
Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993
Ratification / Accession:
17.04.1996
Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997
Ratification / Accession:
28.06.2004
Naval and Airwarfare
Cultural Property
Criminal Repression
Other treaties relating to IHL
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948
Ratification / Accession:
27.01.1982
Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976
Ratification / Accession:
28.10.1980
Related databases
Customary IHL database
ICRC National Implementation Database of IHL
Reference documents
States party to the main treaties
IHL_and_other_r... (561.31 kb)
IHL_and_other_r... (263.50 kb)
Map of States party to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols
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icrc-annual-rep... (886.85 kb)
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