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Wounded, sick and shipwrecked protected under international humanitarian law
… was the founding principle of the First Geneva Convention signed in 1864. It remained … the conduct of war, now consolidated in the Geneva Conventions of 1949, three Additional …
Refugees and displaced persons protected under international humanitarian law
… receive special protection under the Fourth Geneva Convention and Additional Protocol I. …
Contemporary challenges to IHL – Respect for IHL: overview
… to an armed conflict under article 1 of the Geneva Conventions to respect and ensure respect for …
Treaties and customary law
… large number of treaties, in particular the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional … unwritten customs. In that year the First Geneva Convention was adopted. It proved to be …
War and international humanitarian law
… armed conflict for humanitarian reasons. The Geneva Conventions and the Hague Conventions are the … a blind eye. The cornerstone of IHL is the Geneva Conventions. The first was signed by 16 …
Education programmes for young people
… pacifying effect. States party to the Geneva Conventions are required, both in peacetime and …
How does international humanitarian law protect journalists in armed conflict situations?
… protection for journalists, given that the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols … personnel (Article 4 A (4) of the Third Geneva Convention and Article 79 of Additional …
Founding and early years of the ICRC (1863-1914)
… Public Welfare Committee in his home town of Geneva took them up and formed a working group … from a dozen countries adopted the first Geneva Convention, which put a legal framework … humanitarian law: the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their three Additional …
1945-1965: two decades of challenges
… on a process of revising and expanding the Geneva Conventions, aiming to avoid a repeat of the …
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