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… Our mandate under the Geneva Conventions is to provide humanitarian … humanitarian law, which is set out in the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their …
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Penal Repression: Punishing War Crimes
… are addressed: war crimes and the 1949 Geneva Conventions; grave breaches must be punished; … regarded as war crimes. War crimes and the Geneva Conventions Many of the rules relating …
Legal provisions - Sexual violence in armed conflicts workshop
… law Treaty law Article 3 common to the Geneva Conventions: Conflicts not of an international … of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949 Protocol Additional to …
From our archives: Rules to limit suffering
… First-aid post for wounded soldiers. The 1864 Geneva Convention stipulated that wounded … causing death or terrible injuries. The 1925 Geneva Protocol prohibited the use of … of armed forces at sea. The four Geneva Conventions of 1949 – now universally ratified …
Choosing humanity: new video and online game challenge us to confront how numb we have become to abuses to the rules of war
… 07-11-2017 Geneva (ICRC) - The ICRC this week launches a … with a new way of engaging with the Geneva Conventions. The interactive microsite …
National implementation of IHL: Ratification kits
… , model declaration of acceptance 4 - Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 , model instruments …
Olenivka penal facility: Prisoners of war and ICRC's role
… our work in helping POWs and what the Geneva Conventions say about their rights. Here are … commitment and our mandate under the Geneva Conventions. If allowed to visit the …
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 …
Obligations in terms of penal repression - Factsheet
… repression of serious violations in the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 (GC I–IV), their … repression of serious violations in the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 (GC I–IV), their …
How is the term "armed conflict" defined in international humanitarian law?
… conflict. The States parties to the 1949 Geneva Conventions have entrusted the ICRC, through … in the meaning of common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and …
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Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.