… President's address at the Graduate Institute, Geneva Destroyed buildings in Mosul, Iraq. CC … Graduate Institute and with an audience in Geneva. There may not be a topic closer to the … in wartime effectively stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949, even if our history dates …
… Seventy years on, the Geneva Conventions are much more than a legacy, or … below. View the address Background The four Geneva Conventions of 1949 have existed to …
… more because it's the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions. We are looking at hosting some …
… is hard. But we are better than this. The Geneva Conventions, 70 years old this year, leave … Beirut, +961 3 138 353 Jenny Tobias, ICRC Geneva, +41 79 447 37 26 Matthew Morris, ICRC …
… to demonstrate their commitment to the 1949 Geneva Conventions in their 70th anniversary year. …
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… In this, the 70th anniversary year of the Geneva Conventions, the ICRC is calling on all States …
… space, deny the very essence of the Law. The Geneva Conventions are not up for negotiation; they … such as the ICRC, according to the Geneva Conventions, have a right to propose …
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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.
