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Launch of the Chinese Version of the Customary International Humanitarian Law Study

… 2007 Commissioned by the States party to the Geneva Conventions and National Societies during the … Law and Human Rights at the University of Geneva provided an overview of the creation and …

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Professor Louise Doswald-Beck, Director of the University Centre for Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, delivering her presentation of the Customary IHL Study in Beijing on12 October 2007

China: Regional Symposium for the 30th Anniversary of the Adoption of the 1977 Protocols Additional to the 1949 Geneva Conventions held in Beijing

… of the 1977 Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August, 1949: "Principles and … June 1977 of the Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of August 1949 ("the …

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The history of the emblems

… or wounded, on the battlefield.  Back in Geneva, Henry Dunant started writing a book … and the second was the origin of the Geneva Conventions now signed by 192 States.   …

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Third Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 – Ratification kit

… Third Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 Model instrument of … TO THE THIRD ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS ADOPTED ON 8 DECEMBER 2005 …

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O, Humanitarian coordination bodies, 1921- ongoing, 127 metres of shelf space

… rédigée par Fabrizio Bensi. Règles ou conventions Inventaire conforme à la norme … on the grounds of the Parc Mon-Repos (Geneva), made available to the Institute through the City of Geneva and renovated through a grant made in …

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Customary international humanitarian law: Questions and answers

… law. Treaties, such as the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, are written conventions in … add to existing treaty law? While the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 have been ratified …

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Guidelines on the use of the name and image of the ICRC by providers of goods and services

… is any use not expressly authorized by the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols. 6. …

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The ICRC in WWI: Efforts to ban chemical warfare

… issue, the call helped bring about the 1925 Geneva Protocol – still in force today. Battle … invoked the Regulations annexed to the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 respecting the … ICRC efforts Encouraging responses reached Geneva – in particular from the Danish, …

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Occupation and international humanitarian law: Questions and answers

… to their common Article 2, the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 apply to any territory … in the ICRC's Commentary to the Fourth Geneva Convention (1958). An alternative and …

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How "grave breaches" are defined in the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols

… The four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Protocol 1 of 1977 each … ] 2. Acts described as grave breaches in the Conventions are grave breaches of this Protocol …

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ICRC library

Created in 1863, the ICRC library, alongside the ICRC archives, provides an indispensable documentary reference on the organization itself and international humanitarian law.

IHL treaties

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 IHL

Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.