… 27-04-2015 Geneva (ICRC) – With more and more of the … from more than 100 governments are meeting in Geneva from April 27-29 to try to discuss … than 175 treaty articles in the four Geneva conventions regulating almost all aspects of …
… Deprived of their Liberty, 27 April 2015, Geneva, Switzerland. Speech given by Mr Peter … conflict between two or more States. The four Geneva Conventions, for example, contain more than …
… the interpretation of Common Article 1 to the Geneva Conventions". …
… The Holocaust ICRC: Protecting civilians 1949 Conventions and Additional Protocols, and … Commentaries Switzerland Humanitarium, Geneva 17 avenue de la paix, 1202 Genève …
… Meeting of All States 27-29 April 2015, Geneva, Switzerland Background document April … been codified for detention in NIAC. The four Geneva Conventions – universally ratified but for the …
… in November 2011, the States Parties to the Geneva Conventions and the Red Cross Red Crescent … in the same resolution, States party to the Geneva Conventions and the Movement are …
… the core message coming out of a briefing in Geneva hosted jointly by the ICRC and Human … is currently updating the Commentaries on the Geneva Conventions, which date from 1952. Through …
… Committee of the Red Cross, based in Geneva. Abstract The use of “drones” has grown … Aspects, Report of Expert Meeting, Geneva, 26–28 March 2014, available at: … to Article 2 common to the four Geneva Conventions, these foundational IHL treaties …
… ICRC’s Deputy Head of Forensic Services in Geneva, Oran Finegan, highlighted the growing … ICRC’s Deputy Head of Forensic Services in Geneva, Oran Finegan, and ICRC’s Regional … 12-14 March. When States ratify the Geneva Conventions, they expressly commit themselves …
… Statement Geneva Centre for Peace and Security 29 May 2015, Geneva, Switzerland Speech given by Mr. Peter … in the "jus in bello" framework of the Geneva Conventions, the ICRC is the living proof of …
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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.
