… humanitarian mandate that stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. It helps people around … Fatima Sator, ICRC Geneva, tel: +41 79 848 49 08, email: …
… including the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions. Finally, the participating … parties to the four universally recognized Geneva Conventions of 1949 and to the states …
… on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the Geneva Conventions, the San Remo Manual, and the …
… Armed Conflict (OPAC) . Along with the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 that form the basis of …
… The ICRC was founded on 17 February 1863 in Geneva. © ICRC / hist-00113 Danish military ambulance, 1878. The 1864 Geneva Convention established a unique … First World War, 1914-1918: Rath Museum, Geneva, 1949. International Prisoner-of-War …
… use that is not expressly authorized by the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols …
… and Red Crescent, which will take place in Geneva in December. After six years of …
… includes carrying out its functions under the Geneva Conventions, their Additional Protocols and …
… in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross …
… the means and methods of warfare. The Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional …
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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.
