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Compliance with IHL
… law is at the core of our mandate under the Geneva Conventions. IHL in action IHL in action: …
Children forced to go to war
… war. The 1977 Protocols additional to the Geneva Conventions were the first international …
Judicial guarantees and safeguards – Factsheet
… of serious violations of any of the four Geneva Conventions (GC I-IV) or of Additional … of the domestic law of States party to the Geneva Conventions, and roughly correspond to …
International humanitarian law and the challenges of contemporary armed conflicts
… Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, Geneva, Switzerland, 8-10 December 2015. … Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, Geneva, Switzerland, 8-10 December 2015. … Articles 2 and 3 common to the 1949 Geneva Conventions. 2 This challenge has been the …
Humanity after life: Respecting and Protecting the Dead
… required by specific provisions of the 1949 Geneva Conventions (GC I–IV) and their two Additional … Rule 88. 4 ICRC Commentary on the First Geneva Convention, 2016 – and, in particular, …
The International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission – Model declaration of acceptance
… by Article 90 of Protocol I additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949. Date Signature …
ICRC concerned at gap between commitments and practice of Arms Trade Treaty
… 20-08-2018 Tokyo/Geneva – Speaking today at a meeting of … information, please contact Matthew Clancy (Geneva): +41 79 574 15 54; mclancy@icrc.org …
Strengthening compliance with international humanitarian law
… with international humanitarian law, Geneva, 23 April 2015 We are gathered here … individual IHL mechanisms provided for in the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I have …
Armenia/Azerbaijan: Civilian population, whether leaving or staying, must be protected
… 26-09-2023 Geneva (ICRC) –The thousands of people now … humanitarian mandate that stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. It helps people around …
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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.
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.
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Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.