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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:
18.05.1963
Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977
Signature:
10.06.1977
Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977
Ratification / Accession:
21.08.1987
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:
26.01.1996
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:
27.01.1971
Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972
Ratification / Accession:
24.05.1972
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:
09.08.1996
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:
20.01.1971
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:
13.07.1950
Convention on Mercenaries, 1989
Ratification / Accession:
14.04.1997
Reservation / Declaration:
14.04.97
Related databases
Customary IHL database
ICRC National Implementation Database
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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