Protected persons
… people and objects during armed conflict. The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols … cannot be done during an armed conflict. The Geneva Conventions are at the core of this …
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… is the story of humanitarian action, the Geneva Conventions and the birth of the International … of the Red Cross met for the first time in Geneva, Switzerland. Among its five founding …
International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law: Similarities and Differences
… in international armed conflict are the four Geneva IHL is a set of international rules, … methods and means of warfare of their choice. Conventions of 1949 and their Additional … armed conflict are article 3 common to the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol II …
The history of the emblems
… dead 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. …
Air and naval warfare
… at sea Updated Commentary on the Second Geneva Convention San Remo Manual on … based on 1977’s Protocol I additional to the Geneva Conventions, including by defining what a …
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 …
In times of insecurity and conflict, states must work together to uphold and strengthen international humanitarian law
… 18-07-2024 Geneva (ICRC) – At a time when international … route of pulling away from the treaties and conventions—like the Geneva Conventions which turn 75 years old …
Eighth periodic report on the implementation of international humanitarian law at the level of Arab States 2015 - 2018
… of the Red Cross 19, avenue de la Paix 1202 Geneva, Switzerland T +41 22 734 60 01 F +41 … the international humanitarian law-related conventions signed/ratified/acceded to by Arab … celebrating the 70th anniversary of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, and the 20th …
International humanitarian law and the protection of war victims
… An introduction", Henry Dunant Institute, Geneva/Paul Haupt Publishers, Bern, 1993. … of international humanitarian law, with the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols as …
Use of emblems
… emblems are clearly set out in the law. The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols … they also require each state party to the Geneva Conventions and their Additional …
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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.
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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.