… the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions this year, the International … persons reported missing is enshrined in the Geneva Conventions. Bruwer said that despite …
… (in 1899). In 1925, governments adopted the Geneva Protocol, which outlaws the use of … Hague Regulations (1907) Chemical weapons Geneva Protocol (1925) Convention on the … chemical weapons (1993) Biological weapons Geneva Protocol (1925) Convention on the …
… Spoljaric asserts the relevance of the Geneva Conventions - setting clear limits to violence … 55th session of the Human Rights Council, Geneva. President, excellencies, ladies and …
… law? 7 What is the difference between the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols in … treaties: The UN Charter, the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their 1977 Additional …
… in 1889 and with its Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, the Inter-Parliamentary … translated into various activities. Held in Geneva from 23 to 27 October 2016, the 135th … the update of the Commentary to the Geneva Conventions, the Universal Meeting of National …
… in the 1977 First Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 (AP I). The Fourth Geneva Convention for the protection of …
… 2024 also marks the 75th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions. On August 12, 1949, in the … approve these foundational treaties. The Geneva Conventions set the cornerstone of …
… 2 September 2014 at the ICRC Humanitarium in Geneva, and brought together numerous members … with preparing the revision of the 1929 Geneva Conventions. After the Second World War, as …
… Day on this day, 12 August, we recall the Geneva Conventions which came into being on this same … the aftermath of the Second World War. The Geneva Conventions are among the very few …
… 8 June 2017, the Protocols additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 will turn 40. To mark this … of publications and organize events in Geneva and in its delegations around the world …
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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.
