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… Law Day on this day, 12 August, we recall the Geneva Conventions which came into being on this same … in the aftermath of the Second World War. The Geneva Conventions are among the very few …
… Last year, the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions , the foundational instruments of …
… In the year of the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, the Council of the EU issued … of the Red Cross and Red Crescent8 (Geneva, 2015) was issued. Furthermore, as a …
… Red Cross Red Crescent Conference, held in Geneva in December 2019, which encouraged … launch of its Updated Commentary to 3rd Geneva Convention (covering protection of … guidance on the implementation of the Conventions. The event was attended by …
… Health & AI Research, Graduate Institute, Geneva, Kaja Ciglic, senior director, Digital … was based on protections guaranteed under the Geneva Conventions. The rules of international …
… aspects of IHL - as enshrined in the second Geneva Conventions. He also posed the question as to …
… fresh insights on continued relevance of Geneva Conventions for treatment of prisoners of war … to launch the updated Commentary on the Third Geneva Conventions. An expert panel discussed …
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… launching the updated Commentary on the Third Geneva Convention. The panel discussion will … Commentaries of the First, Second, and Third Geneva Conventions of 1949. They will share their …
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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.
