Our Fundamental Principles
… deliberate choice. Our mission comes from the Geneva Conventions, universal laws that preserve a …
… deliberate choice. Our mission comes from the Geneva Conventions, universal laws that preserve a …
… was given to us by states through the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, their Additional …
… and their protection assured, by the Fourth Geneva Convention, the Additional Protocols of …
… of IHL through the adoption of the four 1949 Geneva Conventions and the establishment of the …
… general protection is provided by the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional …
… was given to us by states through the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, their Additional …
… with a unique mandate granted by the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, we …
… stated explicitly in Common Article 3 to the Geneva Conventions. From a practical point of view, …
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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.