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

Hague Convention on Hospital Ships, 1904

Ratification / Accession:01.01.1908

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

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

Final Act of the Geneva Conference, 1949

Signature:12.08.1949

Geneva Conventions, 1949

Ratification / Accession:28.12.1953

Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977

Signature:10.06.1977

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:31.08.1979

Reservation / Declaration: 31.08.79

Declaration Article 90: 31.08.1979

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:31.08.1979

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:29.06.1990

Reservation / Declaration: 20.09.91 26.08.92 20.07.93 29.03.94 01.09.95 26.06.96 18.03.97 13.08.97 09.02.98

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

Ratification / Accession:20.02.2003

Reservation / Declaration: 20.02.2003

Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005

Ratification / Accession:21.08.2014

Methods and Means of Warfare

Hague Convention (II) on the Laws and Customs of War on Land, 1899

Ratification / Accession:05.07.1907

Hague Declaration (IV,2) concerning Asphyxiating Gases, 1899

Ratification / Accession:04.09.1900

Hague Declaration (IV,3) concerning Expanding Bullets, 1899

Ratification / Accession:04.09.1900

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

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

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

Ratification / Accession:25.04.1930

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:05.02.1976

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:07.07.1982

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

Ratification / Accession:07.07.1982

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

Ratification / Accession:07.07.1982

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:07.07.1982

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:17.06.1993

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:15.01.1997

Reservation / Declaration: 15.01.97

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

Ratification / Accession:16.07.1997

Reservation / Declaration: 16.07.97

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997

Ratification / Accession:30.11.1998

Reservation / Declaration: 30.11.98

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

Ratification / Accession:03.12.2002

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

Ratification / Accession:02.06.2004

Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008

Ratification / Accession:23.04.2012

Naval and Airwarfare

Hague Convention (VI) on Enemy Merchant Ships, 1907

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

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

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

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

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

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

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

Hague Convention (XIII) on Neutral Powers in Naval War, 1907

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

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

Ratification / Accession:15.02.1937

Cultural Property

Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:22.01.1985

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:22.01.1985

Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999

Ratification / Accession:10.11.2017

Criminal Repression

Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998

Ratification / Accession:28.06.2001

Other treaties relating to IHL

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

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

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

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948

Ratification / Accession:27.05.1952

Reservation / Declaration: 22.12.89 02.04.2002

Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976

Ratification / Accession:27.04.1984

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

Signature:06.02.2007

Arms Trade Treaty, 2013

Ratification / Accession:16.06.2014

Reservation / Declaration: 16.06.2014

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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