Hong Kong: Asia-Pacific regional Moot Court puts Humanitarian Law in action
… the 1977 Additional Protocols I and II to the Geneva Conventions. To celebrate that, a key note …
Skip to main content
Search results
Jean-Pictet Competition: Taking the law out of the books
… named after the principal artisan of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, has been open to students since …
Papua New Guinea: ICRC praises PNG on IHL move
… Papua New Guinea is a signatory of the Geneva Conventions, the series of international … such as the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions. Secretary of the …
When law is respected, peace is easier to achieve - UN Human Rights Council 2017
… Rights Council, United Nations Office at Geneva, Switzerland. Speech given by Mr. Peter … of the 1977 Additional Protocols of the Geneva Conventions in June. Negotiated and agreed in …
Conference on Disarmament, 110th anniversary of the Second Hague Conference - Statement by the ICRC
… anniversary of the Second Hague Conference, Geneva. Speech by Christine Beerli, Vice … of the Russian Federation to the UN in Geneva, and Ambassador Borodavkin in … this commemoration of 110 years of the Hague Conventions, and to offer our perspective on …
The ICRC in Bangladesh, facts and figures 2016
… ICRC-supported centers. As a guardian of the Geneva Conventions, the ICRC worked with Authorities, …
Nigeria: Hundreds of thousands received food and assistance in 2016
… in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross …
Experience of traineeships - Ellen Nohle
… team updating the Commentaries to the Geneva Conventions; I worked on classifications of …
Ethiopia: Helping the drought-affected, displaced and the vulnerable in detention
… launch of the updated commentary to the First Geneva Convention. Twenty eight people …
Generating respect for the law: The need for persistence and imagination
… organizing committee of the competition in Geneva in 1996 Coach in 1997 GENERATING … IMAGINATION* ‘One of the worst enemies of the Geneva Conventions is ignorance.’1 Jean Pictet …
Didn’t find what you were looking for?
Try one of the following resources:
ICRC library
Created in 1863, the ICRC library, alongside the ICRC archives, provides an indispensable documentary reference on the organization itself and international humanitarian law.
IHL treaties
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 IHL
Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.