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View of the ICRC on interpretation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

… Operations of the Convention: Article 1,” Geneva, 31 May 2002. 16 APMBC, preambular … in particular, Protocol I Additional to the Geneva Conventions, Article 10, prescribing the …

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Role of domestic jurisdictions in the implementation of IHL - law and practice

… with the 150th anniversary of the first Geneva Convention (1864) which provides for the … with the 150th anniversary of the first Geneva Convention (1864) which provides for the … open to all States Parties to the Geneva Conventions with the aim of identifying ways to …

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Development in the legal protection of IDPs

… All states in the world are now party to the Geneva Conventions – the international treaties that …

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Nigeria: ECOWAS States discuss implementation of international humanitarian law

… of warfare. The main treaties are the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their three Additional …

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Malaysia: 19th national IHL moot court competition 2022

… c) ICRC Commentaries to the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols: … Charter of the United Nations 1945 Geneva Convention I on Wounded and Sick in …

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Egypt Activity Report 2017

… conferred upon the organization by the Geneva Conventions. In 1983, the ICRC formalized its … attended a conference on the International Conventions and Criminal Law in the Egyptian …

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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 …

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COVID-19: Experts discuss need to secure health care systems online

… Health & AI Research, Graduate Institute, Geneva, Kaja Ciglic, senior director, Digital … based on protections guaranteed under the Geneva Conventions. The rules of international …

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Everyone wounded or sick during armed conflict has the right to health care

… call for action by the States party to the Geneva Conventions, whose rules seek to limit the way … One year ago today those States gathered in Geneva for the 32nd International Conference of …

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Are we doing enough to safeguard health-care services?

… In December 2015, the States party to the Geneva Conventions gathered in Geneva for the 32nd International Conference of …

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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.

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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.