Learning and teaching IHL
… Where should IHL be taught? As per the Geneva Conventions, IHL must be disseminated by …
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Protected persons: Children
… says Treaty law Protocol I additional to the Geneva Conventions, 1977 – Art. 77 Protocol II additional to the Geneva Conventions, 1977 – Art. 4 Convention …
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
… was given to us by states through the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, their Additional …
Reconnecting families
… families are addressed. Enshrined in the Geneva Conventions, it is a permanent structure … Ukraine According to its mandate under the Geneva Conventions, the CTA created a …
Our Fundamental Principles
… deliberate choice. Our mission comes from the Geneva Conventions, universal laws that preserve a …
The governing bodies of the ICRC
… was given to us by states through the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, their Additional …
Private military and security companies
… and their protection assured, by the Fourth Geneva Convention, the Additional Protocols of …
Criminal repression of IHL violations
… of IHL through the adoption of the four 1949 Geneva Conventions and the establishment of the …
Protected persons: Women
… general protection is provided by the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional …
How we are accountable to the people we help
… was given to us by states through the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, their Additional …
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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.
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.