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,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] |
| Convention (III) relative to the Opening of Hostilities. The Hague, 18 October 1907. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Convention (IV) respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land and its annex: Regulations concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land. The Hague, 18 October 1907. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Convention (VII) relating to the Conversion of Merchant Ships into War-Ships. The Hague, 18 October 1907. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Convention (VIII) relative to the Laying of Automatic Submarine Contact Mines. The Hague, 18 October 1907. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Convention (IX) concerning Bombardment by Naval Forces in Time of War. The Hague, 18 October 1907. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Convention (XI) relative to certain Restrictions with regard to the Exercise of the Right of Capture in Naval War. The Hague, 18 October 1907. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Declaration (XIV) Prohibiting the Discharge of Projectiles and Explosives from Balloons. The Hague, 18 October 1907. |
| [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] |
| Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 9 December 1948. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949. |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles][Commentaries] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
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Signatures |
| 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 Cluster Munitions, 30 May 2008 |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
Signatures
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