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

Final Act of the Geneva Conference, 1949

Signature:12.08.1949

Geneva Conventions, 1949

Ratification / Accession:02.04.1993

Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977

Signature:10.06.1977

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:02.04.1993

Declaration Article 90: 13.03.1995

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:02.04.1993

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:28.05.1993

Reservation / Declaration: 09.08.93

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

Ratification / Accession:07.07.2006

Reservation / Declaration: 07.07.2006

Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005

Ratification / Accession:30.05.2007

Methods and Means of Warfare

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

Ratification / Accession:16.08.1938

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:17.05.1993

Reservation / Declaration: 17.05.93

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:28.05.1993

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

Ratification / Accession:28.05.1993

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

Ratification / Accession:28.05.1993

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:28.05.1993

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:27.10.1995

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:30.11.1999

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

Ratification / Accession:30.11.1999

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997

Ratification / Accession:25.02.1999

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

Ratification / Accession:11.02.2004

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

Ratification / Accession:23.03.2006

Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008

Ratification / Accession:24.07.2015

Naval and Airwarfare

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

Ratification / Accession:14.09.1937

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

Ratification / Accession:31.03.1993

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:31.03.1993

Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999

Ratification / Accession:11.02.2004

Criminal Repression

Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1945

Ratification / Accession:26.09.1945

Convention Statutory Limitations to War Crimes, 1968

Ratification / Accession:28.05.1993

Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998

Ratification / Accession:11.04.2002

Reservation / Declaration: 11.04.2002

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

Ratification / Accession:28.04.2014

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

Ratification / Accession:28.04.2014

Amendment to article 124 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

Ratification / Accession:28.10.2016

Amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, amended article 8 (Weapons which use microbial or other biological agents, or toxins), 2017

Ratification / Accession:19.06.2019

Amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, amended article 8 (Weapons the primary effect of which is to injure by fragments undetectable by x-rays in the human body), 2017

Ratification / Accession:19.06.2019

Amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, amended article 8 (Blinding laser weapons), 2017

Ratification / Accession:19.06.2019

Other treaties relating to IHL

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948

Ratification / Accession:28.05.1993

Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976

Ratification / Accession:28.05.1993

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

Ratification / Accession:15.12.2014

Reservation / Declaration: 15.12.2014

Arms Trade Treaty, 2013

Ratification / Accession:02.04.2014

Reservation / Declaration: 02.04.2014

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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