… 30 June and 1 July 2014 BACKGROUND DOCUMENT GENEVA, JUNE 2014 Contents 1. Introduction … types of armed conflicts, as defined in the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional …
… to IHL and other related international conventions and protocols, and the amendment of … Conflict 1977 Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions – Declaration Article 90 … of war) 2005 Additional Protocol III to the Geneva Conventions Reports and Documents This …
… other forms of illtreatment derives from the Geneva Conventions of 1949, their Additional Protocols … Customs of War on Land (Art. 4); the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 (GC I, Art. 12; GC …
… of the 150th anniversary of the first Geneva Convention. On this occasion, the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian … Professor Andrew Clapham, Director, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian …
… Law Treaty Law o Common art. 3 to the Geneva Conventions: Conflicts not of an international … and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field. Geneva, 12 August 1949 Chapter II : Wounded and …
… enshrined in Article 1 common to the four Geneva Conventions. The recent peak in displacement …
… enshrined in Article 1 common to the four Geneva Conventions. The recent peak in displacement …
… general protection is provided by the four Geneva Conventions (1949) and their Additional … of perpetrators. As parties to the Geneva Conventions and other IHL treaties, the …
… general protection is provided by the four Geneva Conventions (1949) and their Additional … of perpetrators. As parties to the Geneva Conventions and other IHL treaties, the …
… law research and to publish the translated Geneva Conventions of 1949. Thanks to the cooperation … in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red …
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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.
