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

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

Geneva Conventions, 1949

Ratification / Accession:17.06.1953

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:23.11.1978

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:23.11.1978

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:10.07.1990

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

Ratification / Accession:18.04.2002

Reservation / Declaration: 18.04.2002

Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005

Ratification / Accession:12.09.2007

Methods and Means of Warfare

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

Ratification / Accession:20.06.1902

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

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

Hague Declaration (XIV) on Explosives from Balloons, 1907

Ratification / Accession:27.11.1909

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

Ratification / Accession:26.02.2008

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:31.12.1991

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:26.01.2000

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

Ratification / Accession:26.01.2000

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

Ratification / Accession:26.01.2000

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:26.01.2000

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:30.10.1995

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:26.01.2000

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

Ratification / Accession:26.01.2000

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997

Ratification / Accession:27.01.1999

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

Ratification / Accession:13.09.2007

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

Ratification / Accession:23.03.2006

Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008

Ratification / Accession:10.01.2011

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, 2017

Ratification / Accession:30.01.2019

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 (VIII) on Submarine Mines, 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

Havana Convention on Maritime Neutrality, 1928

Signature:20.02.1928

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

Ratification / Accession:24.11.1937

Cultural Property

Roerich Pact for the Protection of Artistic and Scientific Institutions, 1935

Ratification / Accession:01.05.1936

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:19.07.2001

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:27.03.2002

Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999

Ratification / Accession:27.03.2002

Criminal Repression

Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998

Ratification / Accession:03.03.2016

Reservation / Declaration: 03.03.2016

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

Ratification / Accession:03.03.2016

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

Ratification / Accession:03.03.2016

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:28.09.1950

Arms Trade Treaty, 2013

Ratification / Accession: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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