ICRC: Korean War Anniversary and the Geneva Conventions
… set an unprecedented event where the Third Geneva Convention was enacted in a major …
… set an unprecedented event where the Third Geneva Convention was enacted in a major …
… its project to update the Commentaries on the Geneva Conventions, readers can now access individual … the project to update the Commentaries on the Geneva Conventions , the ICRC library's …
… The Geneva Conventions are 70 years old. On this … to these fundamental texts. These four Conventions are among the very few … on August 12, 1949: many states convened in Geneva to adopt 429 articles, written largely …
… of the Updated Commentary on the Second Geneva Convention, the ICRC convenes a panel … Background Since their adoption in 1949, the Geneva Conventions have been subjected to testing and …
… promotes the updated Commentary on the First Geneva Convention – the first in a series of …
… kind of human emotions and fears that the Geneva Conventions of 1949 take account of as they … of the Cold War, it was clear that the Geneva Conventions of 1906 and 1929 were not …
… address at the Graduate Institute, Geneva Destroyed buildings in Mosul, Iraq. CC … Graduate Institute and with an audience in Geneva. There may not be a topic closer to the … in wartime effectively stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949, even if our history dates …
… year marks the 70th anniversary of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949. As the International … Created for the worst of times, the Geneva Conventions preserve the core of our …
… 21-03-2016 Geneva – The International Committee of the … new guidance on the implementation of the Geneva Conventions, bolstering arguments that, …
… humanitarian law. Volume III: "Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of …
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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.
Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.