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200 REPORT
* International Humanitarian Law treaties
are enumerated in this report following
their respective subject. This must not be
interpreted as an ICRC official position.
This report is updated on a monthly basis and
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in the Americas
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Annex 2
Advisory Service
on International Humanitarian Law
Status Report on the Ratification of International Humanitarian Law
Treaties in the Americas
As of November 30, 200
Protection of Victims of Armed Conflicts
• Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949 (GC I-IV)
• Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949 concerning
the protection of victims of international armed conflicts (June ,
19 ) (AP I);
• Statement provided for in Article 90 of said Protocol (AP I – CIHE ART. 90)
• Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949 concerning
the protection of victims of non-international armed conflicts
(June , 19 ) (PA II).
• Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949 concerning
the adoption of a distinctive emblem of December , 2005 (PA III).
• Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the
Involvement of Children in Armed Conflicts of May 25, 2000 (OP CAC)
Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
• Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event
of Armed Conflict, May 14, 1954 (HCCP)
• Additional Protocol I of 1954 (HACCP P. I)
• Additional Protocol II to the HCCP strengthening the punishment of
breaches (HCCP P. II)
Environment
• Convention on the Prohibition of the Military or Any Hostile Use of
Environmental Modification Techniques, December 10, 19 (ENMOD)
Weapons
• Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous
or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, June 1 ,
1925 (G. BC)
• Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and