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Protected persons: Prisoners of war and detainees

… The Third Geneva Convention protects prisoners of war. … law: Prisoners of war and detainees The Third Geneva Convention provides a wide range of … Article 3 common to the 1949 Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol II provide …

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Field exercise during a course on international humanitarian law in Russia.

Detention

… The Third Geneva Convention protects prisoners of war. … conflict. Detention and the law The Third Geneva Convention provides a wide range of … conflicts, Article 3 common to the Geneva Conventions, together with Additional Protocol …

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A child inmate in Mopti arrest house in Mali.

Protected persons: Civilians

… community responded with the Fourth Geneva Convention, adopted in 1949. Before 1949, the Geneva Conventions had protected wounded, sick, …

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Internally displaced people have taken refuge in a school used as a makeshift camp in Kanyaruchinya, Congo.

Protected persons: The wounded, the sick and health-care providers

… was the founding principle of the 1864 Geneva Convention. That principle remained the … aspects of war and was consolidated in the Geneva Conventions of 1949, three Additional …

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ICRC Health care providers with patient

Protected persons

… people and objects during armed conflict. The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols … cannot be done during an armed conflict. The Geneva Conventions are at the core of this …

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ICRC prisoner release and transport.

National implementation of IHL: Documentation

… kit - Third Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 Environment and warfare … International Humanitarian Fact-Finding C… Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols …

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Use of emblems

… emblems are clearly set out in the law. The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols … they also require each state party to the Geneva Conventions and their Additional …

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A ship used to transport relief aid from Cyprus to Lebanon in Larnaka harbour bears the red cross emblem.

Air and naval warfare

… at sea Updated Commentary on the Second Geneva Convention Air and naval warfare and … based on 1977’s Protocol I additional to the Geneva Conventions, including by defining what a …

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A ship at sea firing artillery while three other ships follow behind.

Cultural property

… by the 1977 Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions, the Rome Statute of the … Convention, 1999 Protocol I additional to the Geneva Conventions, 1977 – Art. 53 Protocol II …

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The Sankoré mosque in Timbuktu, Mali.

Respect for IHL

… "in all circumstances" (Art. 1 common to the Geneva Conventions). They must use their influence to … to armed conflict under Article 1 of the Geneva Conventions to respect and ensure …

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ICRC handbook on international humanitarian law

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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.

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.