Treaties, States parties, and Commentaries

Treaties and Documents
- Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Additional Protocols, and their Commentaries
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Victims of Armed Conflicts

Hague Convention on Hospital Ships, 1904

21.12.1904

Final Act of the Geneva Conference, 1949

12.08.1949

Geneva Convention (I) on Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field,1949

12.08.1949

Geneva Convention (II) on Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked of Armed Forces at Sea, 1949

12.08.1949

Geneva Convention (III) on Prisoners of War, 1949

12.08.1949

Geneva Convention (IV) on Civilians, 1949

12.08.1949

Resolutions of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1949

12.08.1949

Tehran Resolution on Human Rights in Armed Conflict, 1968

12.05.1968

United Nations Resolution on Human Rights in Armed Conflicts, 1968

19.12.1968

Final Act of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977

10.06.1977

Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

08.06.1977

Annex (I) AP (I), as amended in 1993

30.11.1993

Annex (I) AP (I), 1977

08.06.1977

Annex (II) AP (I), 1977

08.06.1977

Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977

08.06.1977

Resolutions of the Diplomatic Geneva Conference, 1974-1977

10.06.1977

Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

20.11.1989

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

25.05.2000

Additional Protocol (III) to the Geneva Conventions, 2005

08.12.2005

Methods and Means of Warfare

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

29.07.1899

Hague Declaration (IV,2) concerning Asphyxiating Gases, 1899

29.07.1899

Hague Declaration (IV,3) concerning Expanding Bullets, 1899

29.07.1899

Hague Convention (IV) on War on Land and its Annexed Regulations, 1907

18.10.1907

Hague Convention (IX) on Bombardment by Naval Forces, 1907

18.10.1907

Hague Declaration (XIV) on Explosives from Balloons, 1907

18.10.1907

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

17.06.1925

Institute of International Law Resolution on Military Objectives, 1969

09.09.1969

Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972

16.12.1971

Resolution on Small-Calibre Weapon Systems, 1979

28.09.1979

Final Act on the Conference on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

10.10.1980

Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980

10.10.1980

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

10.10.1980

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

10.10.1980

CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980

10.10.1980

Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993

13.01.1993

CCW Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 1995

13.10.1995

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

03.05.1996

Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997

18.09.1997

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

21.12.2001

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

28.11.2003

Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008

30.05.2008

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, 2017

07.07.2017

Naval and Airwarfare

Hague Convention (VI) on Enemy Merchant Ships, 1907

18.10.1907

Hague Convention (VII) on Conversion of Merchant Ships, 1907

18.10.1907

Hague Convention (VIII) on Submarine Mines, 1907

18.10.1907

Hague Convention (IX) on Bombardment by Naval Forces, 1907

18.10.1907

Hague Convention (XI) on Restrictions of the Right of Capture, 1907

18.10.1907

Hague Convention (XIII) on Neutral Powers in Naval War, 1907

18.10.1907

Havana Convention on Maritime Neutrality, 1928

20.02.1928

London Treaty on Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armaments, 1930

22.04.1930

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

06.11.1936

San Remo Manual on Armed Conflicts at Sea, 1994

12.06.1994

Cultural Property

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

15.04.1935

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

14.05.1954

Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

14.05.1954

Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954

14.05.1954

Resolutions on Cultural Property, The Hague, 1954

14.05.1954

Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999

26.03.1999

Criminal Repression

Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1945

08.08.1945

United Nations Principles for the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1946

11.12.1946

Convention Statutory Limitations to War Crimes, 1968

26.11.1968

European Convention on Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes, 1974

25.01.1974

Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, 1993

25.05.1993

Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, 1994

08.11.1994

Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998

17.07.1998

Statute of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, 2002

16.01.2002

Amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, amended article 8, 2010

10.06.2010

Amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, articles 8bis, 15bis and 15ter, 2010

11.06.2010

Other treaties relating to IHL

Hague Convention (III) on the Opening of Hostilites, 1907

18.10.1907

Hague Convention (V) on Neutral Powers in case of War on Land, 1907

18.10.1907

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, 1948

09.12.1948

Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976

10.12.1976

OAU Convention on Mercenaries, 1977

03.07.1977

Convention on Mercenaries, 1989

04.12.1989

Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance, 2006

20.12.2006

Arms Trade Treaty, 2013

02.04.2013

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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