International Criminal Court
… of international crimes. Under the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I of 1977, … serious violations of IHL covered by the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the 1977 Additional …
… of international crimes. Under the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I of 1977, … serious violations of IHL covered by the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the 1977 Additional …
… as provided in Article 5 to the Fourth Geneva Convention). However, a State cannot … and punish violations. IHL is based on the Geneva and Hague Conventions, Additional Protocols and a series …
… The third Geneva Convention provides a wide range of … specific and were first detailed in the 1929 Geneva Convention. They were refined in the … Article 3 common to the 1949 Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol II provide …
… general protection is provided by the four Geneva Convention (1949) and their Additional …
… pacifying effect. States party to the Geneva Conventions are required, both in peacetime …
… was the founding principle of the First Geneva Convention signed in 1864. It remained … the conduct of war, now consolidated in the Geneva Conventions of 1949, three Additional …
… receive special protection under the Fourth Geneva Convention and Additional Protocol I. …
… to an armed conflict under article 1 of the Geneva Conventions to respect and ensure respect for …
… a large number of treaties, in particular the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional … unwritten customs. In that year the First Geneva Convention was adopted. It proved to be …
… pacifying effect. States party to the Geneva Conventions are required, both in peacetime …
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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.