… organizing committee of the competition in Geneva in 1996 Coach in 1997 GENERATING … IMAGINATION* ‘One of the worst enemies of the Geneva Conventions is ignorance.’1 Jean Pictet …
… launch of the updated commentary to the First Geneva Convention. Twenty eight people …
… team updating the Commentaries to the Geneva Conventions; I worked on classifications of …
… in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross …
… ICRC-supported centers. As a guardian of the Geneva Conventions, the ICRC worked with Authorities, …
… 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 …
… Rights Council, United Nations Office at Geneva, Switzerland. Speech given by Mr. Peter … of the 1977 Additional Protocols of the Geneva Conventions in June. Negotiated and agreed in …
… Papua New Guinea is a signatory of the Geneva Conventions, the series of international … such as the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions. Secretary of the …
… named after the principal artisan of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, has been open to students since …
… the 1977 Additional Protocols I and II to the Geneva Conventions. To celebrate that, a key note …
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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.
