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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:
23.08.1984
Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977
Ratification / Accession:
23.08.1984
Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977
Ratification / Accession:
23.08.1984
Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989
Ratification / Accession:
29.11.1994
Reservation / Declaration:
29.11.94
Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict, 2000
Ratification / Accession:
17.05.2016
Methods and Means of Warfare
Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972
Ratification / Accession:
21.09.2017
Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993
Ratification / Accession:
27.09.2002
Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997
Ratification / Accession:
23.07.1998
Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008
Ratification / Accession:
28.04.2010
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, 2017
Ratification / Accession:
26.09.2018
Naval and Airwarfare
Cultural Property
Criminal Repression
Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998
Ratification / Accession:
16.09.2002
Amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, amended article 8, 2010
Ratification / Accession:
25.09.2012
Amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, articles 8bis, 15bis and 15ter, 2010
Ratification / Accession:
25.09.2012
Other treaties relating to IHL
Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance, 2006
Ratification / Accession:
27.11.2012
Arms Trade Treaty, 2013
Ratification / Accession:
03.06.2014
Related databases
Customary IHL database
ICRC National Implementation Database of IHL
Reference documents
States party to the main treaties
IHL_and_other_r... (543.97 kb)
IHL_and_other_r... (223.00 kb)
Map of States party to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols
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icrc-annual-rep... (886.85 kb)
GVALNWB1/ICRC