… Committee of the Red Cross, based in Geneva. Abstract The use of “drones” has grown … Aspects, Report of Expert Meeting, Geneva, 26–28 March 2014, available at: … to Article 2 common to the four Geneva Conventions, these foundational IHL treaties …
… Statute, namely, grave breaches of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, violations of the laws and … violations of Article 3 common to the 1949 Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol II, …
… This year, we mark 75 years of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. Together with their Additional … hands as per their obligations under the Geneva Conventions. Similar arrangements …
… that the laws of war, underpinned by the Geneva Conventions, reduce suffering in armed … (54 per cent) of millennials think that the Geneva Conventions reduce suffering in war. …
… humanitarian organization. Through the Geneva Conventions of 1949 (Geneva Conventions) and other international …
… Following a three-year research project, the Geneva Academy is releasing a report focused … perspective. On 9 May the ICRC and the Geneva Academy launched the research report at … Disabilities is one of the few human rights conventions explicitly stating that it applies …
… the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Geneva Conventions. The Conventions have been … directly through their permanent mission in Geneva. Each interested state will be able to …
… receive special protection under the Fourth Geneva Convention and Additional Protocol I. …
… 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 …
… that he is fine." Prisoners of war and the Geneva Conventions The 1949 Geneva Conventions —which all countries in the …
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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.
