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… 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 …
… 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 …
… of the Red Cross 19 Avenue de la Paix, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland T +41 22 734 6001 F+41 22 … measures required to implement the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional …
… and repress serious violations of IHL. The Geneva Conventions and Protocol I of 8 June 1977 additional to the Geneva Conventions (Additional Protocol I) …
… First-aid post for wounded soldiers. The 1864 Geneva Convention stipulated that wounded … causing death or terrible injuries. The 1925 Geneva Protocol prohibited the use of … of armed forces at sea. The four Geneva Conventions of 1949 – now universally ratified …
… the development of humanitarian action, the Geneva Conventions and the Red Cross and Red Crescent … met for the first time in February 1863 in Geneva, Switzerland. Among its five members …
… 8 June 2017, the Protocols additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 will turn 40. To mark this … number of publications and organize events in Geneva and in its delegations around the world …
… of the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions, and the 20 th anniversary of the … humanitarian practice – rooted in the Geneva Conventions - must be respected and …
… of the repression mechanism laid down in the Geneva Conventions of 1949 for serious violations of … of having committed grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949. This option is …
… dead or wounded, on the battlefield. Back in Geneva, Henry Dunant started writing a book … and the second was the origin of the Geneva Conventions now signed by 192 States. …
… protect in war?" allows students to apply the Geneva Conventions to concrete issues related to … law Treaty law Article 3 common to the Geneva Conventions: Conflicts not of an …
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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.