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 …
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Launch of IHL Handbook for Malaysian Parliamentarians
… Affairs and Parliament of Malaysia The Geneva Conventions of 1949 are at the core of … and by regulating weapons and their use. The Geneva Conventions provide specific rules for …
Legal provisions - Sexual violence in armed conflicts workshop
… law Treaty law Article 3 common to the Geneva Conventions: Conflicts not of an international … of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949 Protocol Additional to …
Persons protected under IHL
… people and objects during armed conflict. The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols … well as civilians and civilian objects. The Geneva Conventions have their origin in the …
Relevant and practical: The Additional Protocols at 40
… the exception of Common Article 3 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. The context was also marked by … surveying the horrors of the Vietnam War "The Geneva Conventions, in the present …
International humanitarian law and the protection of war victims
… An introduction", Henry Dunant Institute, Geneva/Paul Haupt Publishers, Bern, 1993. … of international humanitarian law, with the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols as …
Civilians protected under international humanitarian law
… of the international community was the Fourth Geneva Convention adopted in 1949. Before 1949 the Geneva Conventions protected wounded, sick, …
Olenivka penal facility: Prisoners of war and ICRC's role
… our work in helping POWs and what the Geneva Conventions say about their rights. Here are … commitment and our mandate under the Geneva Conventions. If allowed to visit the …
Obligations in terms of penal repression - Factsheet
… repression of serious violations in the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 (GC I–IV), their … repression of serious violations in the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 (GC I–IV), their …
Wounded, sick and shipwrecked protected under international humanitarian law
… 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 …
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