Myanmar: ICRC calls for courageous decisions to bring respite to suffering communities
… 04-04-2025 Geneva/Yangon (ICRC) – One week on from the … humanitarian mandate that stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. It helps people around …
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Detention in non-international armed conflict – First thematic consultation of government experts, January 2014.
… it comes to international armed conflict, the Geneva Conventions are largely dedicated to … different contexts in mind. Some, like the Geneva Conventions, Common Article 3 and …
Criminal procedure – Factsheet
… law, such as grave breaches of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional … in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red …
Autonomous weapon systems: Is it morally acceptable for a machine to make life and death decisions?
… Weapons Systems (LAWS), 13 - 17 April 2015, Geneva. Statement of the ICRC Thank you Mr … States party to Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions. The ICRC encourages States that …
Belgium: Concours Jean Pictet makes the next generation of IHL professionals shine.
… ICRC executive and "main architect" of the Geneva Conventions. Take the law out of the books. … contexts, negotiators of major international conventions, military personnel, legal …
Communiqué of the 5th AU-ICRC Common Article 1 Roundtable
… convened the 5th Common Article 1 of the Geneva Convention Roundtable on Tuesday, 15 …
Contemporary Challenges to Humanitarian Action, 7th Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Lecture on International Humanitarian Law
… and exclusion. For the past 150 years, the Geneva Conventions and other bodies of international … will of the parties to a conflict. The Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I …
Launch of the Chinese Version of the Customary International Humanitarian Law Study
… 2007 Commissioned by the States party to the Geneva Conventions and National Societies during the … Law and Human Rights at the University of Geneva provided an overview of the creation …
Red Cross Red Crescent Conference: Over 160 States gather to address world's most pressing humanitarian issues
… 12-12-2019 Geneva (ICRC/IFRC) - Representatives from 168 … Societies, at the International Conference in Geneva which closed today. The International … brings together States party to the Geneva Conventions and global Red Cross Red Crescent …
From our archives: The First World War
… ICRC Library / RR / hist-e-05302 Switzerland, Geneva, 1915. Civilians who have fled fighting … the International Prisoners of War Agency in Geneva, which centralized information and … ICRC Library / RR / R. Gilly / hist-01144-05 Geneva. A train passes through Switzerland on …
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