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Humanizing the laws of war – the Red Cross and the development of International Humanitarian Law

… Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva. The event will be video recorded and … Permanent Mission of Germany to the UN in Geneva Introductory remarks and moderation … to update the Commentaries on the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional …

Event

Detention: States discuss legal safeguards for detainees in non-international conflicts

… 27-04-2015 Geneva (ICRC) – With more and more of the … from more than 100 governments are meeting in Geneva from April 27-29 to try to discuss … than 175 treaty articles in the four Geneva conventions regulating almost all aspects of …

News release

ICRC president arrives in Israel

… 14-12-2023 Geneva (ICRC) - Mirjana Spoljaric, the … humanitarian mandate that stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. It helps people around …

News release

Israel and the occupied territories: ICRC facilitates hostage release, calls for renewed and sustainable ceasefire agreement

… 12-05-2025 Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of … humanitarian mandate that stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. It helps people around …

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ICRC flad and blue sky

ICRC statement on reports of attack in Olenivka

… 29-07-2022 Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of … organization, its mandate stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. It is based in Geneva, …

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ICRC brings together experts to explore how upholding rules of war can help facilitate peace

… 20-03-2025 Geneva (ICRC) – At a time of escalating global … on Thursday, March 20 with an event in Geneva that brought together state … mandate that stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. It helps people around …

News release
President Mirjana Spoljaric

Strengthening compliance with IHL, Fourth Meeting of all States, 23-24 April 2015

… 23 and 24 April 2015 BACKGROUND DOCUMENT GENEVA, MARCH 2015 Contents 1. 1.1. 1.2. 1.3. … types of armed conflicts, as defined in the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional …

Law and policy topic

South Asian judiciaries work towards enhancement of IHL capacity across region

… to mark the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions. Justice Asoka de Silva, retired … international humanitarian laws such as the Geneva Conventions. Judicial activism has …

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"Mankind is faced with a problem of supreme gravity..."; ICRC appeal, 1945

… of international law in its model form in the Geneva and Hague Conventions , have undergone far-reaching … calls for decisions on the moral plane. The Geneva Convention gives guarantees to the …

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National Committees and Similar Entities on International Humanitarian Law: Guidelines for Success

… Introduction 5 INTRODUCTION Since the First Geneva Convention was adopted in 1864, … and become quite complex in the process. Its conventions, protocols and customary rules … is emphasized in Article 1 common to the four Geneva Conventions and Article 1(1) of …

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ICRC library

Created in 1863, the ICRC library, alongside the ICRC archives, provides an indispensable documentary reference on the organization itself and international humanitarian law.

IHL treaties

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 IHL

Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.