… features 8–9 April 2013 Background document Geneva, March 2013 THE PURPOSE OF THIS DOCUMENT … which will take place on 17/18 June 2013 in Geneva. The 8/9 April 2013 discussions will … and Red Crescent; 2 All UN human rights conventions provide for a reporting procedure: …
… the first international agreement – the 1925 Geneva Protocol – banning asphyxiating, … using similar weapons, but the 1925 Geneva Protocol had nevertheless established a … legal instruments followed in the form of Conventions adopted by States in 1972 and 1993. …
… Additional Protocols I and II of 1977 to the Geneva Conventions of 1949; as well as • the ICRC … Law 1. Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, and relating to the …
… The ICRC was founded on 17 February 1863 in Geneva. © ICRC / hist-00113 Danish military ambulance, 1878. The 1864 Geneva Convention established a unique … First World War, 1914-1918: Rath Museum, Geneva, 1949. International Prisoner-of-War …
… of toxic chemicals as weapons under the 1925 Geneva Protocol, the Chemical Weapons … as weapons is absolutely prohibited by the Geneva Protocol, the 1972 Biological Weapons …
… (and biological) weapons in 1925 (The Geneva Protocol). This was reinforced with … toxic chemical as a weapon under the 1925 Geneva Protocol, the 1993 Chemical Weapons …
… misuse of conventional weapons. Under the Geneva Conventions and customary international law, …
… Mines took place on 3-7 December 2012 in Geneva. During this event, the ICRC took the …
… armed conflict. Article 3 common to the Geneva Conventions – called "common" because it is identical in each of the four Geneva Conventions – does not use the term …
… with International Humanitarian Law (IHL), Geneva, 8/9 November 2012 … meeting of States held on 13 July 2012 in Geneva showed broad agreement on the need to … provided for under the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the First Additional Protocol …
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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.
