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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:
18.05.1964
Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977
Signature:
10.06.1977
Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977
Ratification / Accession:
13.03.1991
Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977
Ratification / Accession:
13.03.1991
Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989
Ratification / Accession:
17.08.1990
Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict, 2000
Ratification / Accession:
06.05.2002
Reservation / Declaration:
06.05.2002
Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005
Ratification / Accession:
21.05.2008
Methods and Means of Warfare
Geneva Protocol on Asphyxiating or Poisonous Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods, 1925
Ratification / Accession:
24.05.1965
Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972
Ratification / Accession:
12.05.1992
Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980
Ratification / Accession:
14.11.1995
CCW Protocol (I) on Non-Detectable Fragments, 1980
Ratification / Accession:
14.11.1995
CCW Protocol (II) prohibiting Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices, 1980
Ratification / Accession:
14.11.1995
CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980
Ratification / Accession:
14.11.1995
Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993
Ratification / Accession:
30.11.2001
Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997
Ratification / Accession:
25.02.1999
Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008
Signature:
03.12.2008
Naval and Airwarfare
Cultural Property
Criminal Repression
Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998
Ratification / Accession:
14.06.2002
Other treaties relating to IHL
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948
Ratification / Accession:
14.11.1995
Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976
Signature:
18.05.1977
OAU Convention on Mercenaries, 1977
Signature:
02.07.2004
Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance, 2006
Signature:
06.02.2007
Related databases
Customary IHL database
ICRC National Implementation Database
Reference documents
States party to the main treaties
IHL_and_other_r... (461.46 kb)
IHL_and_other_r... (217.50 kb)
Map of States party to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols
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