… year also marks the 70th Anniversary of the Geneva Conventions of 1949. Universally ratified, the Geneva Conventions represent the bedrock of the …
… and non-international. The 1949 Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols of 1977 and 2005 are its core treaties. The Geneva Conventions have been accepted by all …
… December 16 and 17, 2013 BACKGROUND DOCUMENT GENEVA, NOVEMBER 2013 Contents 1. Introduction … States on Strengthening Compliance with IHL, Geneva, June 17-18, 2013 … to States parties to the 1949 Geneva Conventions. The International Conference is …
… humanitarian law (or “IHL”). The first Geneva Convention was adopted just 160 years … battlefield. Today, IHL consists of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their three Additional …
… overarching theme of the meeting, held in Geneva, was Enhancing Protection in Armed … LAW AND POLICY CONFERENCE OVERVIEW REPORT GENEVA, SWITZERLAND 30 NOVEMBER – 2 DECEMBER … of conflicts since it ratified the Geneva Conventions. The committee was created in 2013 …
… with International Humanitarian Law, Geneva, 13 July 2012 Concluding remarks Purpose … Humanitarian Law Friday, 13 July 2012, Geneva, Switzerland Guidance Document … Conference on the “60 Years of the Geneva Conventions and the Decades Ahead”, States …
… anniversary of the Second Hague Conference, Geneva. Speech by Christine Beerli, Vice … of the Russian Federation to the UN in Geneva, and Ambassador Borodavkin in … this commemoration of 110 years of the Hague Conventions, and to offer our perspective on …
… LAW TREATY LAW People protected by the four Geneva Conventions of 1949: • the wounded and the sick on land (First Geneva Convention) • the wounded, the sick and …
… 16-10-2022 Geneva (ICRC) - A team of 11 staff of the … to treat them humanely in line with the Geneva Conventions and to give the ICRC access to all …
… coincides with the 75th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions and the 120th anniversary of the … Department, emphasized the importance of the Geneva Conventions and 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.
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.
