Ratifications / Accessions |
| Declaration Respecting Maritime Law. Paris, 16 April 1856. |
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| Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field. Geneva, 22 August 1864 |
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| 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. |
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| Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armies in the Field. Geneva, 6 July 1906. |
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| Convention (III) relative to the Opening of Hostilities. The Hague, 18 October 1907. |
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| 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. |
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| Convention (V) respecting the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and Persons in Case of War on Land. The Hague, 18 October 1907. |
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| Convention (VI) relating to the Status of Enemy Merchant Ships at the Outbreak of Hostilities. The Hague, 18 October 1907. |
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| Convention (VII) relating to the Conversion of Merchant Ships into War-Ships. The Hague, 18 October 1907. |
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| Convention (VIII) relative to the Laying of Automatic Submarine Contact Mines. The Hague, 18 October 1907. |
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| Convention (IX) concerning Bombardment by Naval Forces in Time of War. The Hague, 18 October 1907. |
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| Convention (X) for the Adaptation to Maritime Warfare of the Principles of the Geneva Convention. The Hague, 18 October 1907. |
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| Convention (XI) relative to certain Restrictions with regard to the Exercise of the Right of Capture in Naval War. The Hague, 18 October 1907. |
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| Convention (XIII) concerning the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers in Naval War. The Hague, 18 October 1907. |
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| Declaration (XIV) Prohibiting the Discharge of Projectiles and Explosives from Balloons. The Hague, 18 October 1907. |
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| Convention on Maritime Neutrality. Havana, 20 February 1928. |
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| 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. |
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| Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 9 December 1948. |
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| Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Convention on the Rights of the Child, 20 November 1989. |
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| Convention on the prohibition of the development, production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons and on their destruction, Paris 13 January 1993 |
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| Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, 18 September 1997 |
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Signatures |
| Final Act of the Second Peace Conference. The Hague, 18 October 1907. |
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| Convention (XII) relative to the Creation of an International Prize Court. The Hague, 18 October 1907. |
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| Additional Protocol to the Convention relative to the Establishment of an International Prize Court. The Hague, 19 September 1910. |
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| Treaty on the Protection of Artistic and Scientific Institutions and Historic Monuments (Roerich Pact). Washington, 15 april 1935. |
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| 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. |
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| Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 17 July 1998 |
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| Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict, 25 May 2000 |
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| 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] |
| Convention on Cluster Munitions, 30 May 2008 |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
Signatures
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