… A statement from ICRC President Peter Maurer Geneva (ICRC) – We are seeing a devastating … civilian suffering and loss of life. The Geneva Conventions and their First Additional …
… Celebrating the Geneva Conventions and Building respect for IHL: A … in this year of the 70 th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions.” Conference participants …
… in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross … is an organization formally recognized in the Geneva Conventions, their Additional …
… and on their Destruction, 9-13 December 2013, Geneva. Like many States, the ICRC is … Convention. The ICRC’s Advisory Service, in Geneva and in the field, remains available to … to the inter-sessional process here in Geneva, it is encouraging that various ideas …
… The Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional … States are obliged to spread knowledge of the Conventions and Protocols as widely as … OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW The Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their …
… to draft, negotiate and adopt the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, which today are core to … norms, uphold them and take action. These Geneva Conventions were designed to protect …
… 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 …
… for IHL in all circumstances. That the Geneva Conventions of 1949 are the most widely … conflict - a mandate conferred upon us by the Geneva Conventions, their Additional Protocols …
… 18-01-2023 Geneva (ICRC) - ICRC President Mirjana … to states’ obligations to uphold the Geneva Conventions, which lay out the rules of …
… marks the 75 th anniversary of the 1949 Four Geneva Conventions. They specifically protect people … enriched in Common Article 1 to the Four Geneva Conventions. In your opinion, after 75 …
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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.
