… humanitarian law since the initial Geneva Convention was adopted in 1864. In … on the High Contracting Parties to the 1949 Geneva Conventions, identification cards and armlets …
… National IHL Committee, a workshop on the Geneva Convention Implementing Act and its …
… the relevant national laws and international conventions. In accordance with international … +227 96 66 99 12 Jean-Yves Clémenzo, ICRC Geneva, tel: +41 22 730 22 71 or +41 79 217 32 …
… Mr Charles Sabga, ICRC’s Legal Adviser from Geneva, Mr Sunod Jacob Matthew and Ms Supriya … Legal Adviser from Iran, presented on the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, the …
… in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross and …
… two workshops, organized in Addis Ababa and Geneva in cooperation with prison authorities … in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross and …
… project to update the Commentaries on the Geneva Conventions, readers can now access individual … project to update the Commentaries on the Geneva Conventions , the ICRC library's …
… known as international humanitarian law. The Geneva Conventions form its backbone. Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the ICRC has over 12,000 …
… in full. Every State party to the Geneva Conventions also has an obligation in this … connection: Article 1 common to the four Geneva Conventions calls on all States Parties …
… IHL came into being with the original Geneva Convention of 1864. It has evolved in … in chronological order of adoption: 1864 Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the … projectiles in wartime) 1899 The Hague Conventions respecting the Laws and Customs of …
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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.
