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… 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 …
… 10-12-2015 Geneva (ICRC) – After four years of extensive … Red Crescent, which draws to a close today in Geneva. Instead, States agreed to launch an … annual meeting of states party to the Geneva Conventions, a non-politicized forum for them …
… 18-11-2015 Geneva (ICRC) - An Armenian soldier who had … will. On the basis of its mandate under the Geneva Conventions, the ICRC has been working in the …
… in meeting their obligations under the Geneva Conventions and – more broadly – under … or Colombia. Ratified by 196 states, the Geneva Conventions commit signatories not only …
… The parties to the conflict under the Third Geneva Convention must allow the International … please contact: Crystal Wells , ICRC Geneva (English) cwells@icrc.org , +41 79 642 80 56 Florian Seriex , ICRC Geneva (English, French) fseriex@icrc.org , …
… (and biological) weapons in 1925 (The Geneva Protocol). This was reinforced with … any toxic chemical as a weapon under the 1925 Geneva Protocol, the 1993 Chemical Weapons …
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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.
