Ratifications / Accessions |
| 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 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][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 of the OAU for the Elimination of Mercenarism in Africa. Libreville, 3rd July 1977. |
| [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. |
| [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] |
| International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries, 4 December 1989. |
| [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] |
| 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] |
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Signatures |
| 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] |