… First both the letter and the spirit of the Geneva Conventions must be faithfully implemented. … for how wars are fought in the future. The Geneva Conventions insist: every human life is …
… situations of violence. The rules of war Geneva Conventions: The set of rules we all agree on Highlights Geneva Conventions and the law The rules of …
… law is at the core of our mandate under the Geneva Conventions. IHL in action IHL in action: … century, culminating in treaties such as the Geneva Conventions. Key principles include …
… Our mandate under the Geneva Conventions is to provide humanitarian … humanitarian law, which is set out in the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their …
… emblems is clearly defined in law. The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols … they also require each state party to the Geneva Conventions and their Additional …
… is a source of encouragement to the ICRC in Geneva and our delegates in the field. Our … contributions from the states party to the Geneva Conventions (governments), National Red Cross …
… lives Video Every day in our work, we see the Geneva Conventions in action. As long as conflicts … Red Cross (ICRC) was established under the Geneva Conventions – the most widely ratified …
… Chair Mr Page studied at the Universities of Geneva and St Gallen. He is a founding partner … also university lecturer at the University of Geneva and a visiting scholar at Harvard Law … As a university lecturer at the University of Geneva, Mr Page teaches law and litigation in …
… approach Governments, as states party to the Geneva Conventions, are the ICRC’s main funders, …
… use that is not expressly authorized by the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols …
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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.
