… for international humanitarian law. The Geneva Conventions are universally ratified and the … the Additional Protocols I and II to the Geneva Conventions and the Statute of the …
… "grave breaches" regime laid down in the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional … violations of Article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and of Additional …
… of international humanitarian law (IHL). The Geneva Conventions protect victims of armed conflict. … call on all High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions to join this initiative to …
… and expanding bullets (1868 and 1899). The Geneva Protocol (1925) outlawed poisonous … by the Biological and Chemical Weapons Conventions. The 1980 Convention on Certain …
… session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, gathered over 160 delegates from over … It was the first high-level event held in Geneva around the Global Initiative for IHL … principles enshrined in the Geneva Conventions. The ICRC, together with Brazil, …
… Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (Geneva, Switzerland, 8-10 December 2015) … in domestic legislation and international conventions dealing with terrorism – these two … in IAC but not in NIAC. Under the Third Geneva Convention, nationality is irrelevant …
… as The Hague Convention of 1907 and the 1906 Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the … among other key treaties and rules, the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the Additional …
… Cross and Red Crescent Societies. The four Geneva Conventions, as they are known today, were … of warfare. Three Protocols additional to the Geneva Conventions were later adopted. They …
… 75th anniversary of the adoption of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, of which the 4th …
… is the birthplace of the ICRC and the Geneva Conventions and is home to many international … institutions. The ICRC’s headquarters are in Geneva. The United Kingdom is a permanent …
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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.
