Ratifications / Accessions |
| 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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| 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. |
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| Declaration (IV,2) concerning Asphyxiating Gases. The Hague, 29 July 1899. |
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| Declaration (IV,3) concerning Expanding Bullets. The Hague, 29 July 1899. |
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| Convention for the Exemption of Hospital Ships, in Time of War, from The Payment of all Dues and Taxes Imposed for the Benefit of the State. The Hague, 21 December 1904. |
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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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| Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare. Geneva, 17 June 1925. |
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| Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armies in the Field. Geneva, 27 July 1929. |
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| Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. Geneva, 27 July 1929. |
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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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| Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. The Hague, 14 May 1954. |
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| Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. The Hague, 14 May 1954. |
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| Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, 26 November 1968. |
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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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| European Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes. Strasbourg, 25 January 1974. |
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| Convention on the prohibition of military or any hostile use of environmental modification techniques, 10 December 1976. |
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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. |
| [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. |
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| Protocol on Non-Detectable Fragments (Protocol I). Geneva, 10 October 1980. |
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| Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices (Protocol II). Geneva, 10 October 1980. |
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| Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Incendiary Weapons (Protocol III). Geneva, 10 October 1980. |
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| 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 |
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| Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons (Protocol IV to the 1980 Convention), 13 October 1995 |
| [Introduction][Full Text][Articles] |
| Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices as amended on 3 May 1996 (Protocol II to the 1980 Convention as amended on 3 May 1996) |
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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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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War (Protocol V to the 1980 Convention), 28 November 2003 |
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Signatures |
| Final Act Of the International Peace Conference. The Hague, 29 July 1899. |
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| Final Act of the Second Peace Conference. The Hague, 18 October 1907. |
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| Final Act of the Diplomatic Conference. Geneva, 27 July 1929. |
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| 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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