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

Geneva Conventions, 1949

Ratification / Accession:06.10.1952

Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977

Signature:10.06.1977

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:30.03.2012

Reservation / Declaration: 30.03.2012

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:11.12.1986

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:21.08.1990

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

Ratification / Accession:26.08.2003

Reservation / Declaration: 26.08.2003

Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005

Ratification / Accession:22.08.2006

Methods and Means of Warfare

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

Ratification / Accession:08.06.1973

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:21.05.1973

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:15.07.1996

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

Ratification / Accession:15.07.1996

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

Ratification / Accession:15.07.1996

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:15.07.1996

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:11.12.1996

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:12.06.1997

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

Ratification / Accession:12.06.1997

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997

Ratification / Accession:15.02.2000

Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008

Ratification / Accession:03.01.2019

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, 2017

Signature:20.09.2017

Naval and Airwarfare

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

Signature:14.05.1954

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Signature:14.05.1954

Criminal Repression

Convention Statutory Limitations to War Crimes, 1968

Ratification / Accession:15.05.1973

Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998

Withdrawal: 17.03.2019

Other treaties relating to IHL

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948

Ratification / Accession:07.07.1950

Reservation / Declaration: 07.07.50

Arms Trade Treaty, 2013

Signature:25.09.2013

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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