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Summary table of IHL provisions specifically applicable to children

… enjoyed by children. The Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I apply … those countries. With regard to the Fourth Geneva Convention, the field of application of …

Law and policy topic

ICRC statement on recruitment and use of children in hostilities

… that the ICRC will host a conference in Geneva from 07 to 09 December in which we will … The two Additional Protocols to the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the Convention on the Rights of …

Statement

Updated Commentary on the Geneva Conventions of August 12 1949. Volume I, 2016 (Paperback)

The First Convention is a foundational text of international humanitarian law. It contains the essential rules on the protection of the wounded and sick, those assigned to their care, and the red …

Publication

Peter Maurer: "Autonomous weapon systems raise ethical concerns for society"

… Effects (CCW) – 13-17 December 2021, Geneva / (Statement recorded 10 December 2021) …

Statement

15th Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Protocol V on explosive remnants of war

… International Committee of the Red Cross — Geneva, 9 December 2021 Mr. President, In many …

Statement

Digital Dilemmas Dialogue #9 - Digital identities: Protecting people’s data

… includes States that are signatories of the Geneva Conventions, we adopted a resolution on the … réunit les États du monde, signataire des Conventions de Genève et le Mouvement de la …

Event

"Urban warfare" exhibition in Brussels

… ) - the foundation of which is based on the Geneva Conventions - nevertheless protects them, as …

Article

IISS Manama Dialogue: 17th Regional Security Summit

… the mandate provided by States in the Geneva Conventions and in other frameworks governing … consequences. I remind you that the Geneva Conventions are based on customary rules …

Statement

ICRC perspectives on the protection of children

… Armed Conflict (OPAC) . Along with the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 that form the basis of IHL, …

Law and policy topic

ICRC leads discussion on the management of scarce water resources during protracted armed conflict

… conflict? 17 Customary IHL, Study Rule 87; Geneva Convention IV, Article 3; Additional … 4(1). 18 Customary IHL, Study Rule 55; Geneva Convention IV, Article 23; Additional … water supplies to breaking point, ICRC, Geneva, 2015a. ICRC, Urban services during …

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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.