(See also: the Treaty database containing about 100 IHL treaties, commentaries on the four Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, an up-to-date list of signatures and ratifications and full text of reservations.)

• List of signatories and ratifications of Protocol Additional to the Geneva Convention, relating to the adoption of an additional distinctive emblem (Protocole III), Geneva 8 December 2005 (on the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs website)

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• Convention (I) for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field. Geneva, 12 August 1949.

• Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea. Geneva, 12 August 1949.

• Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949.

• Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, Geneva, 12 August 1949.

• Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts. Geneva, 8 june 1977.

• Declaration provided for under article 90 AP I. Acceptance of the Competence of the International Fact-Finding Commission according to article 90 of AP I.

• Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts. Geneva, 8 June 1977.

• Convention on the Rights of the Child, New York, 20 November 1989.

• Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict, New York, 25 May 2000.

• Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 17 July 1998.

• Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, The Hague, 14 May 1954.

• First Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, The Hague, 14 May 1954.

• 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.

• Convention on the prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques, New York, 10 December 1976.

• Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and Warfare, Geneva, 17 June 1925.

• 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.

• 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.

• Protocol on non-detectable fragments (I)

• Protocol on prohibitions or restrictions on the use of mines, booby-traps and other devices (II)

• Protocol on prohibitions or restrictions on the use of incendiary weapons (III)

• Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons (Protocol IV to the 1980 Convention), 13 October 1995.

• 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).

• Amendment to the 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 (with Protocols I, II and III), Geneva 21 December 2001.

• Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction, Paris 13 January 1993.

• Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, Oslo, 18 September 1997.