International expert meeting report: The principle of proportionality
… Protocol I of 8 June 1977 additional to the Geneva Conventions (AP I). It prohibits attacks … Humanitarian Law, 3rd ed., ICRC, Geneva, 2001, p. 46. 9 Y. Sandoz, C. Swinarski …
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Ten years after ban on cluster munitions, ICRC hails progress and calls on more States to join treaty
… 03-09-2018 Geneva (ICRC) – Speaking at the opening of the … please contact: Matt Clancy, ICRC Geneva, +41 79 574 15 54 …
Creating and Teaching an IHL Course
… of International and Development Studies, Geneva Andrew Clapham is a professor of … and served as the first director of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian … 2014. In 2015 he co-edited The 1949 Geneva Conventions: A Commentary with Paola Gaeta and …
Obligations in terms of penal repression - Factsheet
… repression of serious violations in the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 (GC I–IV), their … repression of serious violations in the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 (GC I–IV), their …
The International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission – Factsheet
… Protocol I of 8 June 1977 additional to the Geneva Conventions (Protocol I) provides for the … Protocol I of 8 June 1977 additional to the Geneva Conventions (Protocol I) provides for …
Statute of the International Criminal Court
… humanitarian law mentioned in the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their 1977 Additional … systems and the ICC Under the 1949 Geneva Conventions and 1977 Additional …
1972 Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons
… World War, and was prohibited by the 1925 Geneva Protocol, the forerunner to the … World War, and was prohibited by the 1925 Geneva Protocol, the forerunner to the … 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross …
Malaysia: 15th national IHL moot court competition
… were in force for Plant and Page: The 1949 Geneva Conventions; the 1977 Additional Protocols; … and Cultural Rights, 3 (1966), the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the two …
Implementing IHL in West Africa
… the relationship with IHL in international conventions addressing terrorism, as acts of … Mr. Benjamin Charlier, Legal Adviser, ICRC Geneva, gave an update on the 4th Universal … held on 30 November – 2 December 2016 in Geneva. The meeting was organized by the ICRC …
States must act responsibly at every step along the arms transfer chain
… which is enshrined in Article 1 common to the Geneva Conventions and in the principles of the Arms …
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