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Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Additional Protocols, and their Commentaries
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Geneva Conventions, 1949
Ratification / Accession:
28.06.1973
Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977
Ratification / Accession:
02.11.1995
Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977
Ratification / Accession:
02.11.1995
Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989
Ratification / Accession:
07.09.1995
Reservation / Declaration:
07.09.95
Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict, 2000
Ratification / Accession:
24.09.2012
Reservation / Declaration:
24.09.2012
Methods and Means of Warfare
Geneva Protocol on Asphyxiating or Poisonous Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods, 1925
Ratification / Accession:
23.07.1991
Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972
Ratification / Accession:
18.06.1991
Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993
Ratification / Accession:
20.09.1996
Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997
Ratification / Accession:
22.12.1998
Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008
Ratification / Accession:
13.09.2011
Naval and Airwarfare
Cultural Property
Criminal Repression
Other treaties relating to IHL
OAU Convention on Mercenaries, 1977
Signature:
07.12.2004
Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance, 2006
Signature:
25.09.2007
Arms Trade Treaty, 2013
Signature:
04.09.2013
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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