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:31.10.1921

Final Act of the Geneva Conference, 1949

Signature:12.08.1949

Geneva Conventions, 1949

Ratification / Accession:26.11.54

Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977

Signature:10.06.77

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:23.10.91

Declaration Article 90: 02.10.1992

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:23.10.91

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:07.06.91

Reservation / Declaration: 07.06.91

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

Ratification / Accession:07.04.2005

Reservation / Declaration: 07.04.2005 28.06.2013

Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005

Ratification / Accession:26.10.2009

Methods and Means of Warfare

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

Ratification / Accession:09.05.1925

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

Ratification / Accession:31.05.1935

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

Ratification / Accession:04.02.1929

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:25.01.73

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:02.06.83

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

Ratification / Accession:02.06.83

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

Ratification / Accession:02.06.83

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:02.06.83

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:23.08.95

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:23.09.2004

Reservation / Declaration: 23.09.2004

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

Ratification / Accession:14.10.2003

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997

Ratification / Accession:27.12.2012

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

Ratification / Accession:15.09.2006

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

Ratification / Accession:26.09.2011

Naval and Airwarfare

Hague Convention (VI) on Enemy Merchant Ships, 1907

Ratification / Accession:31.05.1935

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

Ratification / Accession:31.05.1935

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

Ratification / Accession:31.05.1935

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

Ratification / Accession:02.06.1935

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

Ratification / Accession:21.07.1937

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:06.08.56

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:06.08.56

Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999

Ratification / Accession:03.01.2012

Criminal Repression

Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1945

Ratification / Accession:25.09.1945

Convention Statutory Limitations to War Crimes, 1968

Ratification / Accession:14.02.69

Reservation / Declaration: 14.02.69

Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998

Ratification / Accession:12.11.2001

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

Ratification / Accession:25.09.2014

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

Ratification / Accession:25.09.2014

Other treaties relating to IHL

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

Ratification / Accession:09.05.1925

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

Ratification / Accession:09.05.1925

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948

Ratification / Accession:14.11.50

Reservation / Declaration: 14.11.50

Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976

Ratification / Accession:08.06.78

Convention on Mercenaries, 1989

Signature:28.12.90

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

Signature:25.06.2013

Arms Trade Treaty, 2013

Ratification / Accession:17.12.2014

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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