… 08-08-2025 Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of … by the international community, under the Geneva Conventions, to ensure that International …
… with International Humanitarian Law, Geneva, 13 July 2012 Concluding remarks … Humanitarian Law Friday, 13 July 2012, Geneva, Switzerland Guidance Document … the Conference on the “60 Years of the Geneva Conventions and the Decades Ahead”, States …
… two years later to adoption of the First Geneva Convention of 1864, the genesis of … required by the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions on the one hand. And second, to …
… of toxic chemicals as weapons under the 1925 Geneva Protocol, the Chemical Weapons … as weapons is absolutely prohibited by the Geneva Protocol, the 1972 Biological Weapons …
… Through a series of treaties such as the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, … in the Hague Convention of 1907 and the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their Additional …
… international 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 …
… part in hostilities. However, neither the Geneva Conventions nor their Additional Protocols … expert meetings were held in The Hague and Geneva between 2003 and 2008, bringing …
… of states under common Article 1 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions (GCs) to respect and ensure … of states under common Article 1 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions (GCs) to respect and ensure …
… 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 …
… Humanitarian Law (IHL) June 17/18, 2013 Geneva Background Document May 2013 Contents … Humanitarian Law June 17/18, 2013 Geneva Background Document 1. Introduction … sensu are provided for in the 1949 Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol 1 thereto …
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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.
