… will take place at the ICRC headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The event will reflect … Claudio Avruj, UK Permanent Representative in Geneva H.E. Julian Braithwaite, and Argentine … Project Plan are provided for in the Geneva Conventions and are central to the ICRC's …
… reports, and they are not mentioned in the Geneva Conventions or their Additional Protocols. … on Status of the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions (The most recent version of …
… the prohibition. Countries agreed the 1925 Geneva Protocol, which banned the use of … of toxic chemicals as weapons under the 1925 Geneva Protocol, the 1993 Chemical Weapons … International Committee of the Red Cross Geneva, September 2012∗ Prohibition This …
… 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 …
… this year marking the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, the ICRC is heartened to see so … to principled humanitarian action and to the Geneva Conventions at the end of this 70th …
… humanely and with dignity. According to the Geneva Conventions, states party to an international … torture. We work on the basis of the Third Geneva Convention, which states that the …
… 15-12-2023 Geneva (ICRC) - Mirjana Spoljaric, the … humanitarian mandate that stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. It helps people around …
… on Cluster Munitions, 10-13 September 2024, Geneva Madam President, Excellencies, Ladies …
… restriction of certain combat tactics. The Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional … and practical measures. For example, the Geneva Conventions require states to put an …
… Mr Benjamin Charlier, ICRC legal adviser in Geneva, highlighted that existing mechanisms, … Article 90 of Protocol I additional to the Geneva Conventions to enquire into allegations of …
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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.
