United Kingdom

Commitments

Status as shown on the official registers on the date we checked. Joining a treaty is a legal commitment; it does not show how well it is kept.

• Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (Hague Convention, 1954)
  ✓ Party · ratification · 11 September 2017

  Also listed as a signatory on 30 December 1954.

  Source: UNESCO Legal Affairs

• Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (First Protocol, 1954)
  ✓ Party · accession · 11 September 2017

  Source: UNESCO Legal Affairs

• Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (1999)
  ✓ Party · accession · 11 September 2017

  Source: UNESCO Legal Affairs

• Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (World Heritage Convention, 1972)
  ✓ Party · ratification · 29/05/1984 (R)

  Source: UNESCO World Heritage Centre

• Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (1998)
  ✓ Party · ratification · 4 Oct 2001

  Signed 30 Nov 1998. The UN Treaty Collection page attaches footnote 11 to the UK entry; it records UK communications (received 11 March 2010 and 28 November 2012) asking that the UK ratification be extended to listed territories for whose international relations the UK is responsible. See the footnote on the source page for the full list and text.

  Source: United Nations Treaty Collection

Instruments not shown here have not been researched yet. They are not assumed to be absent.

Sites

• Stonehenge — Europe (Wiltshire, England)
• Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City — Europe

Related cases

• Decision 44 COM 7A.34: Deletion of 'Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City' from the World Heritage List (2021) — Other international decision (State Party to the Convention; the property was located in Liverpool, England)