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… In this year, the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, we are asking States to restate … forms of sexual violence are a violation. The Geneva Conventions made this prohibition clear …
… deprived of their liberty are outlined in the Geneva Conventions of 1949, their Additional … international humanitarian law. The third Geneva Convention specifically provides a wide …
… the core message coming out of a briefing in Geneva hosted jointly by the ICRC and Human … is currently updating the Commentaries on the Geneva Conventions, which date from 1952. Through …
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… humanitarian organisation, based in Geneva, Switzerland. The ICRC has been … initial mandate is derived from the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their 1977 Additional …
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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.
