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Victims of Armed Conflicts

Final Act of the Geneva Conference, 1949

Signature:12.08.1949

Geneva Conventions, 1949

Ratification / Accession:22.02.51

Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977

Signature:10.06.77

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:21.11.85

Reservation / Declaration: 21.11.85

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

Ratification / Accession:21.11.85

Reservation / Declaration: 21.11.85

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Ratification / Accession:20.04.90

Reservation / Declaration: 20.04.90

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

Ratification / Accession:24.10.2001

Reservation / Declaration: 24.10.2001

Methods and Means of Warfare

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

Ratification / Accession:18.10.66

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

Ratification / Accession:04.01.2002

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

Ratification / Accession:22.07.97

Reservation / Declaration: 22.07.97

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

Ratification / Accession:22.07.97

Reservation / Declaration: 22.07.97

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

Ratification / Accession:22.07.97

Reservation / Declaration: 22.07.97

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

Ratification / Accession:22.07.97

Reservation / Declaration: 22.07.97

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

Ratification / Accession:12.05.99

Reservation / Declaration: 12.05.99

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

Ratification / Accession:22.07.97

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

Ratification / Accession:22.07.97

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997

Ratification / Accession:17.02.98

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

Ratification / Accession:09.12.2002

Reservation / Declaration: 09.12.2002

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

Ratification / Accession:13.12.2005

Reservation / Declaration: 13.12.2005

Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008

Ratification / Accession:03.12.2008

Reservation / Declaration: 03.12.2008

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, 2017

Ratification / Accession:20.09.2017

Naval and Airwarfare

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

Ratification / Accession:16.03.1937

Cultural Property

Final Act on the Protection of Cultural Property, The Hague, 1954

Signature:14.05.54

Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:24.02.58

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

Ratification / Accession:24.02.58

Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999

Signature:17.05.99

Criminal Repression

Other treaties relating to IHL

Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976

Signature:27.05.77

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