Victims of Armed Conflict
data taken from IHL database https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/treaties-and-states-parties
Hague Convention on Hospital Ships, 1904 (30 states a party to)
– Signed and Ratified
Geneva Convention (I) on Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field, 1949 (196 states a party to)
-Signed and Ratified (with reservations/declarations)
Geneva Convention (II) on Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked of Armed Forces at Sea, 1949 (196 states a party to)
-Signed and Ratified (with reservations/declarations)
Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, 1949 (196 states a party to)
-Signed and Ratified (with reservations/declarations)
Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, 1949 (196 states a party to)
-Signed and Ratified (with reservations/declarations)
Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), 1977 (175 states a party to)
-Signed, NOT RATIFIED
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 (170 states a party to)
-Signed, NOT RATIFIED
Convention on the Rights of the Child, 20 November 1989 (196 states a part to) — but US is not one of them
-Signed, NOT RATIFIED
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict, 25 May 2000 (173 states a party to)
-Signed and Ratified (with reservation/declaration)
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 (80 states a party to)
-Signed and Ratified
Means and Methods of Warfare
Declaration (IV,2) concerning Asphyxiating Gases. The Hague, 29 July 1899 (30 states a party to)
-Not signed, not ratified
Declaration (IV,2) concerning Asphyxiating Gases. The Hague, 29 July 1899 (33 states a party to)
-Not signed, not ratified
Declaration (IV,3) concerning Expanding Bullets. The Hague, 29 July 1899 (33 states a party to)
-Not signed, not ratified
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 (38 states a party to)
-Signed and ratified
Convention (IX) concerning Bombardment by Naval Forces in Time of War. The Hague, 18 October 1907 (37 states a party to)
-Signed and ratified
Declaration (XIV) Prohibiting the Discharge of Projectiles and Explosives from Balloons. The Hague, 18 October 1907 (20 states a party to)
-Signed and ratified
Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare. Geneva, 17 June 1925 (146 states a party to)
-Signed and ratified (with reservation/declaration)
** 50 years passed between signing and ratification
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 (185 states a party to)
-Signed and ratified
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 (128 states a party to)
-Signed and ratified (with reservation/declaration)
Protocol on Non-Detectable Fragments (Protocol I). Geneva, 10 October 1980 (120 states a party to)
-Signed and ratified (with reservation/declaration)
Protocol (II) on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices. Geneva, 10 October 1980 (96 states a party to)
-Signed and ratified (with reservation/declaration)
Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Incendiary Weapons (Protocol III). Geneva, 10 October 1980 (117 states a party to)
-Acceded to (with reservation/declaration)
Convention on the prohibition of the development, production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons and on their destruction, Paris 13 January 1993 (193 states a party to)
-Signed and ratified (with reservation/declaration)
Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons (Protocol IV to the 1980 Convention), 13 October 1995 (111 states a party to)
-Acceded to (with reservation/declaration)
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 CCW Convention as amended on 3 May 1996) (107 states a party to)
-Acceded to (with reservation/declaration)
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, 18 September 1997 (166 states a party to)
-Not signed or ratified
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 (90 states a party to)
-Acceded to
Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War (Protocol V to the 1980 CCW Convention), 28 November 2003 (99 states a party to)
-Acceded to (with reservation/declaration)
Convention on Cluster Munitions, 30 May 2008 (112 states a party to)
-Not signed, not ratified
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, 7 July 2017 (74 states a party to; all non-nuclear as far as I can tell)
-Not signed, not ratified
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 17 July 1998 (125 states a party to)
-Signed, not ratified
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