Civil defence in international humanitarian law – Factsheet
… in the 1977 First Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 (AP I). The Fourth Geneva Convention for the protection of …
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National Committees for the implementation of international humanitarian law
… The Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional … States are obliged to spread knowledge of the Conventions and Protocols as widely as … OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW The Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their …
Universal jurisdiction over war crimes – Factsheet
… jurisdiction was first introduced by the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 for the protection of war … offence. Additional Protocol I of 1977 to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 extends the …
Respecting and protecting health care in armed conflicts and in situations not covered by international humanitarian law - Factsheet
… international and non-international. The 1949 Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols of 1977 and 2005 are its core treaties. The Geneva Conventions have been accepted by all …
Command responsibility and failure to act – Factsheet
… FAILING TO ACT The system established in the Geneva Conventions of 1949 for repressing grave … prevent or punish the criminal conduct. The Geneva Conventions of 1949 The Geneva …
ICRC database on national measures implementing international humanitarian law
… specific laws, statutes and acts (e.g. Geneva Conventions Acts); parts of more general laws … and compiled at ICRC headquarters in Geneva. Any comments on the Database are …
Judicial guarantees and safeguards – Factsheet
… of serious violations of any of the four Geneva Conventions (GC I-IV) or of Additional … of the domestic law of States party to the Geneva Conventions, and roughly correspond to …
General principles of international criminal law – Factsheet
… certain crimes in international law The 1949 Geneva Conventions and their 1977 Additional … crimes – in particular grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions – and crimes against …
International Criminal Justice: The Institutions
… Statute, namely, grave breaches of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, violations of the laws and … violations of Article 3 common to the 1949 Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol II, …
Missing and Deceased Migrants and their Families
… in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross …
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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.
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Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.