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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 …
… of the Red Cross 19, Avenue de la Paix 1202 Geneva, Switzerland … Persons: A Handbook for Parliamentarians, Geneva, 2009, available at: … Persons: A Handbook for Parliamentarians, Geneva, 2009; ICRC, Accompanying the Families …
… Department of International Law and Policy in Geneva can provide guidance on implementing … in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross …
… emergency preparedness, promotion of Geneva Conventions and capacity building of the …
… for Physical Therapy (WCPT) Congress in Geneva in May. An URCMHS staff member … attendance to the WCPT Congress, held in Geneva. PHYSICAL REHABILITATION ENTITY • … signed or ratified several disability-related conventions. It ratified the UNCRPD in 2008 …
… PERSONS AND THEIR FAMILIES IHL (the 1949 Geneva Conventions, its 1977 Additional Protocols and …
… and controversial interpretations of the Geneva Conventions over occupation, use of force or …
… GUIDANCE: IHL: • Article 3 common to the Geneva Conventions (CA3); ICRC, Commentary on GCI, … also constituting a grave breach under the Geneva Conventions and committed during an …
… of International Humanitarian Law and the Geneva Conventions . Thus, the similarities between … ICRC is also the initiator of the idea of the Geneva Conventions, which are the basis of …
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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.
