Promoting the Teaching of IHL in Universities: Overview, Successes and Challenges of the ICRC’s Approach
… Abstract According to the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, States have to include …
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Senior staff of DPRK Red Cross discuss laws of war at workshop
… also planning to distribute 500 copies of the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols in the …
ICRC, China work toward preserving humanity in war
… states that are party or signatory to the Geneva Convention in order to assist them in …
International criminal justice: The institutions – Factsheet
… 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, …
UAE: Senior military officers from around the world meet to discuss laws of war
… The ICRC is formally entrusted under the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols …
International Conference on the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons
… Office of Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian … Office of Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian …
Current state of affairs in the field of disarmament and arms control
… duty is enshrined in Article 1 common to the Geneva Conventions and in the principles of the Arms …
Weapons: Statement of the ICRC to the United Nations, 2018
… of an Arms Race in Outer Space, held in Geneva in August, the ICRC was able to share … Weapons Systems, which took place in Geneva in August this year, States made some …
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 …
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 …
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