Other Treaties and Conventions

In addition to the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, other agreements prohibit the use of certain weapons and military tactics and protect certain categories of people and goods. These agreements include:

• the 1954 Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, plus its two protocols;
• the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention;
• the 1980 Conventional Weapons Convention and its four protocols;
• the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention;
• the 1997 Ottawa Convention on anti-personnel mines;
• the 2000 Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict 

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Updated October 15, 2007