… to draft, negotiate and adopt the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, which today are core to … norms, uphold them and take action. These Geneva Conventions were designed to protect …
… and Operations of the Convention: Article 1,” Geneva, 31 May 2002. 16 APMBC, preambular … in particular, Protocol I Additional to the Geneva Conventions, Article 10, prescribing the …
… law (IHL) and other bodies of law. The 1949 Geneva Conventions were the first treaties to … State. As we mark the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions this year, let us also …
… war. The 1977 Protocols additional to the Geneva Conventions were the first international …
… "On the 70th anniversary of the 1949 Geneva Conventions , the ICRC aims to secure firm … and their societies to the basic rules of the Geneva Conventions and increase universal …
… The ICRC is formally entrusted under the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols …
… Based on its mandate enshrined in the Geneva Conventions, the ICRC has special prerogatives …
… space, deny the very essence of the Law. The Geneva Conventions are not up for negotiation; they … such as the ICRC, according to the Geneva Conventions, have a right to propose …
… In this, the 70th anniversary year of the Geneva Conventions, the ICRC is calling on all States …
… do on access to education, or what the Geneva Conventions say about education, to policy …
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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.
