… ICRC President issues a call to make the Geneva Conventions a political priority Geneva (ICRC) – On the 75 th anniversary of the …
A number of legal experts took part in this collective work, written with the collaboration of Jean Pictet. For the section on Protocol I relative to international armed conflicts: Claude Pilloud, …
… Why are your headquarters in Geneva? What was to become the International … met for the first time in February 1863 in Geneva, Switzerland. Among the five members was … persuaded governments to adopt the original Geneva Convention. This treaty obliged armies …
… Marking the 72nd anniversary of the Geneva Conventions on 12 August, the International …
… project: updating the Commentaries on the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional … document developments in how the Geneva Conventions and Protocols have been …
… project: updating the Commentaries on the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional … document developments in how the Geneva Conventions and Protocols have been …
… to mark the 76th anniversary of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 on August 12th. Geneva (ICRC) – Seventy-six years ago today, …
… in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross and … of the Red Cross 19, avenue de la Paix 1202 Geneva, Switzerland T +41 22 734 60 01 …
… Office of Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian … Office of Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian …
… the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) and the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian … States party to Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions. In 2006, the Third Review …
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Created in 1863, the ICRC library, alongside the ICRC archives, provides an indispensable documentary reference on the organization itself and international humanitarian law.
International humanitarian law is based on a number of treaties, in particular the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols, and a series of other instruments.
Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.
