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Strengthening compliance with IHL: Meeting with a group of States, November 2012

… with International Humanitarian Law (IHL), Geneva, 8/9 November 2012 … The meeting of States held on 13 July 2012 in Geneva showed broad agreement on the need to … mechanisms provided for under the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the First Additional Protocol …

Law and policy topic

Fifth Commonwealth Red Cross and Red Crescent Conference on IHL

… Celebrating the Geneva Conventions and Building respect for IHL: A … in this year of the 70 th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions.” Conference participants …

Law and policy topic

Statutes of the International Committee of the Red Cross

… 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 …

Article

Biological weapons: Efforts needed to strengthen preventive measures, Meeting of States Parties, 2013

… 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 …

Statement

The rule of law at the national and international levels: ICRC statement to the United Nations, 2015

… 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 …

Statement

Urgent humanitarian needs, prisoners of war top agenda for President Spoljaric’s first visit to Moscow

… 18-01-2023 Geneva (ICRC) - ICRC President Mirjana … to states’ obligations to uphold the Geneva Conventions, which lay out the rules of …

News release

Implementing international humanitarian law: 2020/2021 report

… WORK The work of the ICRC is based on the Geneva Conventions of 1949 for the protection of … compliance with its rules and principles. The Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I …

Publication

Protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict - Model law

… domestic law. Some of the provisions of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional … under the implementing legislation for the Geneva Conventions and/or the Rome Statute. In …

Law and policy topic

Through effective multilateralism, States can create norms that uphold our humanity

… 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 …

Statement

Our finances

… contributions from the states party to the Geneva Conventions (governments); National Red Cross … contributions from the states party to the Geneva Conventions (governments), National Red …

Topic
The ICRC financially assists Congolese people deported from Angola.

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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.

IHL treaties

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 IHL

Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.