… of the Red Cross World Health Organization Geneva, 2016 PAHO HQ Library … Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland Stephen Cordner Professor … International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland William Goodwin School of …
… This year is the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions. The Conventions were agreed in the … Seventy years on from the creation of the Geneva Conventions, we are looking for new …
… - DECEMBER 2018 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS: WHY THEY CONCERN TO ALL OF US Is … (partly rewritten) 70 years ago in the Geneva Conventions—a series of four …
… In this year, the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, we are asking States to restate … of sexual violence are a violation. The Geneva Conventions made this prohibition clear …
… law of armed conflict”– is formed by the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols. Its … warfare. The core of IHL is comprised of the Geneva Conventions of 1949, which have achieved …
… as mandated by the States party to the 1949 Geneva Conventions, it is the promoter and custodian … instruments of IHL including the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional …
… of their liberty are outlined in the Geneva Conventions of 1949, their Additional Protocols … international humanitarian law. The third Geneva Convention specifically provides a wide …
… At the same time, the States party to the Geneva Conventions have recognized the ICRC's mandate …
… Introduction 5 INTRODUCTION Since the First Geneva Convention was adopted in 1864, … and become quite complex in the process. Its conventions, protocols and customary rules … emphasized in Article 1 common to the four Geneva Conventions and Article 1(1) of …
… 8. Respecting the law, no excuses As the Geneva Conventions turn 70 in 2019, we recognize that …
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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.
