Search results

1398 results found

Request for Tender - GVA22/00188 - Frame Agreement - Electrical Items for Premises

… of offers:  13th January, 2023 at 16:00pm (Geneva time). Closing date for request for … clarifications: 6th January, 2023 at 14:00pm (Geneva time). Should you have any questions … Humanitarian Law, notably the Geneva Conventions. Within the above mandate and its …

Article

Ethiopia: Tens of thousands of people receive seeds and fertilizers in conflict-affected regions

… humanitarian mandate that stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. It helps people around …

News release
Seeds and fertilizers distribution in Ayna Bugna, North Wollo, Amhara region.

Embassy of Canada and ICRC Conclude Insightful Alumni Discussion on Humanitarian Efforts to Mark World Red Cross Day

… Cross Day and the 75 th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, featured Mamadou Sow, the ICRC’s …

News release

"International humanitarian law should not be construed, or interpreted, as legitimizing the resort to conflict."

… of the First Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions, in which States expressed their …

Statement

Indonesia and Timor-Leste: Facts and figures, 2015

… in an "expert consultation" workshop in Geneva. • Two Indonesian officials and one … place at the National IHL Commission on the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their translation into …

Article

Even wars have limits: Health-care workers and facilities must be protected

… law. It is no coincidence that the very first Geneva Convention of 1864 pertained to the … basic humanitarian consensus enshrined in the Geneva Conventions. To demand they are respected, …

Law and policy topic

Director General of ICRC urges principled humanitarian action as a path to peace amidst global conflicts

… with how they are fought. Mandated by the Geneva Conventions , our mission has always been to …

Law and policy topic

Accountant 2 (Arabic Speaker)

… and our mandate stems essentially from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. We work closely with …

Job offer

Contemporary challenges to IHL – Respect for IHL: overview

… to an armed conflict under article 1 of the Geneva Conventions to respect and ensure respect for …

Law and policy topic

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.