Toxic chemicals as weapons for law enforcement
… (and biological) weapons in 1925 (The Geneva Protocol). This was reinforced with … any toxic chemical as a weapon under the 1925 Geneva Protocol, the 1993 Chemical Weapons …
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… LAW TREATY LAW People protected by the four Geneva Conventions of 1949: • the wounded and the sick on land (First Geneva Convention) • the wounded, the sick and …
What is international humanitarian law?
… notably through the adoption of the 1864 Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the … THE TREATY-BASED SOURCES OF IHL? 1 The four Geneva Conventions of 1949 (GC I, II, III and IV), …
New weapons - Factsheet
… found in Protocol I additional to the 1949 Geneva Conventions on the protection of … found in Protocol I additional to the 1949 Geneva Conventions on the protection of victims of …
Founding and early years of the ICRC (1863-1914)
… Public Welfare Committee in his home town of Geneva took them up and formed a working group … from a dozen countries adopted the first Geneva Convention, which put a legal framework … humanitarian law: the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their three Additional …
Ukraine: Wide-scale armed conflict inflicts emotional pain on families of missing loved ones
… 22-08-2022 Geneva (ICRC) - The depth of emotional anguish … happened to their loved ones. Under the Third Geneva Convention, the states mandate the ICRC … all parties have agreed to under the Geneva Conventions. The last six months have taken a …
Commemorating Jean Pictet by keeping his legacy alive
… 2 September 2014 at the ICRC Humanitarium in Geneva , and brought together numerous members … with preparing the revision of the 1929 Geneva Conventions. After the Second World War, as …
Strengthening Compliance with IHL – Second Meeting of States on Strengthening Compliance with IHL, June 2013
… Humanitarian Law (IHL) June 17/18, 2013 Geneva Background Document May 2013 Contents … Humanitarian Law June 17/18, 2013 Geneva Background Document 1. Introduction … sensu are provided for in the 1949 Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol 1 thereto …
Missing persons and their families - Factsheet
… missing. 1 See Protocol I additional to the Geneva Conventions (AP I), Art. 33; ICRC Study on … the whereabouts of family members (the Fourth Geneva Convention (GC IV), Arts 25, 26 and 82; …
The International Committee of the Red Cross as guardian of international humanitarian law
… Movement [6 ] and by the States party to the Geneva Conventions, that is, practically all the … the tasks incumbent upon it under the Geneva Conventions, to work for the faithful …
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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.
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Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.