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:18.05.63

Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977

Signature:10.06.77

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:21.08.87

Reservation / Declaration: 21.08.87

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:28.11.2001

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:26.01.96

Reservation / Declaration: 26.01.96

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

Ratification / Accession:10.06.2011

Reservation / Declaration: 10.06.2011

Methods and Means of Warfare

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

Ratification / Accession:27.01.71

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:24.05.72

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:07.12.2007

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

Ratification / Accession:07.12.2007

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:07.12.2007

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:09.08.96

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:07.12.2007

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

Ratification / Accession:08.01.2010

Naval and Airwarfare

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

Ratification / Accession:11.06.1937

Cultural Property

Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:20.01.71

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:06.11.2007

Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999

Ratification / Accession:06.11.2007

Criminal Repression

Other treaties relating to IHL

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948

Ratification / Accession:13.07.50

Convention on Mercenaries, 1989

Ratification / Accession:14.04.97

Reservation / Declaration: 14.04.97

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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