… 1864 Adoption of the 1st Geneva Convention. Image 1904 The Qing government joined the 1st Geneva Convention of 1864. On November 21, … Geneva. Review Conference of the Geneva Conventions. 1907 On June 12, China ratified …
… Hosted by the ICRC at its headquarters in Geneva, this hybrid event aimed to disseminate … in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross and …
… humanely and with dignity. According to the Geneva Conventions, states party to an international … torture. We work on the basis of the Third Geneva Convention, which states that the ICRC's …
… humanitarian mandate that stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. It helps people around the …
… honour of the 75th anniversary of the Fourth Geneva Convention , which protects civilians in …
… c) ICRC Commentaries to the Geneva Conventions and its Additional Protocols: … using the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions in conformity with …
… 19-06-2024 Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of … travelled all the way from Ukraine to Geneva to share their suffering and to call for … mandate that stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. It helps people around the …
… marks the 75th anniversary of the four 1949 Geneva Conventions, and 120th anniversary of the …
… This year, we mark 75 years of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. Together with their Additional … hands as per their obligations under the Geneva Conventions. Similar arrangements should …
… the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Geneva Conventions, which are at the core of … the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Geneva Conventions by organizing an …
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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.
