About the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
… lives Video Every day in our work, we see the Geneva Conventions in action. As long as conflicts … Red Cross (ICRC) was established under the Geneva Conventions – the most widely ratified …
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Data Protection Commission
… Chair Mr Page studied at the Universities of Geneva and St Gallen. He is a founding partner … also university lecturer at the University of Geneva and a visiting scholar at Harvard Law … As a university lecturer at the University of Geneva, Mr Page teaches law and litigation in …
Our government partnerships
… approach Governments, as states party to the Geneva Conventions, are the ICRC’s main funders, …
Copyright and terms of use
… use that is not expressly authorized by the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols …
ICRC Archives
… of the Red Cross 19 avenue de la Paix 1202 Geneva, Switzerland Visit our archives … of the ICRC and enshrined in the Geneva Conventions . The personal records in …
How we are run
… was given to us by states through the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, their Additional …
Transparency and Accountability
… was given to us by states through the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, their Additional …
Our Strategies, Policies and Code of Conduct
… was given to us by states through the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, their Additional …
We help people affected by armed conflict
… understanding of and respect for the law The Geneva Conventions – the rules of war – protect … from punishing serious violations of the Geneva Conventions to protecting the use of …
We are the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
… was given to us by states through the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, 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.
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.