Treaties, States parties, and Commentaries

Treaties and Documents
- Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Additional Protocols, and their Commentaries
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United States of America

Victims of Armed Conflicts

Hague Convention on Hospital Ships, 1904

Ratification / Accession:26.03.1907

Final Act of the Geneva Conference, 1949

Signature:12.08.1949

Geneva Conventions, 1949

Ratification / Accession:02.08.1955

Reservation / Declaration: 02.08.55 04.03.75 31.12.74

Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977

Signature:10.06.1977

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Signature:12.12.1977

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Signature:12.12.1977

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Signature:16.02.1995

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

Ratification / Accession:23.12.2002

Reservation / Declaration: 23.12.2002

Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005

Ratification / Accession:08.03.2007

Methods and Means of Warfare

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

Ratification / Accession:09.04.1902

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:10.04.1975

Reservation / Declaration: 10.04.75

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:26.03.1975

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:24.03.1995

Reservation / Declaration: 24.03.95

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

Ratification / Accession:24.03.1995

Reservation / Declaration: 24.03.95

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

Ratification / Accession:24.03.1995

Reservation / Declaration: 24.03.95

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:21.01.2009

Reservation / Declaration: 21.01.2009

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:25.04.1997

Reservation / Declaration: 25.04.97

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:21.01.2009

Reservation / Declaration: 21.01.2009

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

Ratification / Accession:24.05.1999

Reservation / Declaration: 24.05.99

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

Ratification / Accession:21.01.2009

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

Ratification / Accession:21.01.2009

Reservation / Declaration: 21.01.2009

Naval and Airwarfare

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:03.12.1909

Reservation / Declaration: 03.12.1909

Havana Convention on Maritime Neutrality, 1928

Ratification / Accession:22.03.1932

Reservation / Declaration: 22.03.1932

London Treaty on Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armaments, 1930

Ratification / Accession:27.10.1930

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

Signature:06.11.1936

Cultural Property

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

Ratification / Accession:13.07.1935

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:13.03.2009

Criminal Repression

Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1945

Signature:08.08.1945

Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998

Signature:31.12.2000

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:25.11.1988

Reservation / Declaration: 25.11.88

Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976

Ratification / Accession:17.01.1980

Arms Trade Treaty, 2013

Signature:25.09.2013

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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