Ratifications / Accessions |
| Convention (II) with Respect to the Laws and Customs of War on Land and its annex: Regulations concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land. The Hague, 29 July 1899. |
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| Convention (III) for the Adaptation to Maritime Warfare of the Principles of the Geneva Convention of 22 August 1864. The Hague, 29 July 1899. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Declaration (IV,1), to Prohibit, for the Term of Five Years, the Launching of Projectiles and Explosives from Balloons, and Other Methods of Similar Nature. The Hague, 29 July 1899. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Declaration (IV,2) concerning Asphyxiating Gases. The Hague, 29 July 1899. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Declaration (IV,3) concerning Expanding Bullets. The Hague, 29 July 1899. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare. Geneva, 17 June 1925. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armies in the Field. Geneva, 27 July 1929. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. Geneva, 27 July 1929. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Procès-verbal relating to the Rules of Submarine Warfare set forth in Part IV of the Treaty of London of 22 April 1930. London, 6 November 1936. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Agreement for the Prosecution and Punishment of the Major War Criminals of the European Axis, and Charter of the International Military Tribunal. London, 8 August 1945. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 9 December 1948. |
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| Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles][Commentaries] |
| Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. The Hague, 14 May 1954. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. The Hague, 14 May 1954. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, 26 November 1968. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction. Opened for Signature at London, Moscow and Washington. 10 April 1972. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), 8 June 1977. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles][Commentaries] |
| Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II), 8 June 1977. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles][Commentaries] |
| Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects. Geneva, 10 October 1980. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Protocol on Non-Detectable Fragments (Protocol I). Geneva, 10 October 1980. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices (Protocol II). Geneva, 10 October 1980. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Incendiary Weapons (Protocol III). Geneva, 10 October 1980. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Convention on the Rights of the Child, 20 November 1989. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Convention on the prohibition of the development, production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons and on their destruction, Paris 13 January 1993 |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons (Protocol IV to the 1980 Convention), 13 October 1995 |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, 18 September 1997 |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 17 July 1998 |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict The Hague, 26 March 1999 |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict, 25 May 2000 |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects. Geneva, 10 October 1980. Amendment article 1, 21 December 2001. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
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Signatures |
| The Nyon Agreement, 14 September 1937. |
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| Agreement supplementary to The Nyon Agreement. Geneva, 17 September 1937. |
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| Final Act of the Diplomatic Conference of Geneva, 12 August 1949. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Final Act of the Intergovernmental Conference on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. The Hague, 14 May 1954. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Final Act of the Diplomatic Conference of Geneva of 1974-1977. |
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| International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries, 4 December 1989. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Protocol additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Adoption of an Additional Distinctive Emblem (Protocol III), 8 December 2005 |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
Signatures
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