Fifth Commonwealth Red Cross and Red Crescent Conference on IHL
… Celebrating the Geneva Conventions and Building respect for IHL: A … in this year of the 70 th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions.” Conference participants …
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Protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict - Model law
… domestic law. Some of the provisions of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional … under the implementing legislation for the Geneva Conventions and/or the Rome Statute. In …
International Humanitarian Law is key to upholding multilateralism and addressing global challenges
… can have a long lasting impact. The Geneva Conventions will celebrate their 70th … and committed themselves to - under the Geneva Conventions and other components of …
Biological weapons: Efforts needed to strengthen preventive measures, Meeting of States Parties, 2013
… and on their Destruction, 9-13 December 2013, Geneva. Like many States, the ICRC is … Convention. The ICRC’s Advisory Service, in Geneva and in the field, remains available to … to the inter-sessional process here in Geneva, it is encouraging that various ideas …
Means of personal identification
… combatants and protected persons. The 1949 Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I of 1977 … the protection that is their due. The 1949 Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I …
National Committees for the implementation of international humanitarian law
… The Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional … States are obliged to spread knowledge of the Conventions and Protocols as widely as … OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW The Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their …
Methods and means of warfare
… methods and means of waging war are the Hague Conventions of 1907, the 1977 Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions and a series of agreements … says Treaty law Protocol I additional to the Geneva Conventions, 1977 – Art. 35–60 Protocol …
Global Initiative to Galvanize Political Commitment to International Humanitarian Law
… Law Despite a global consensus supporting the Geneva Conventions, adherence to even the most … call on all High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions to join this initiative to …
Universal jurisdiction over war crimes – Factsheet
… jurisdiction was first introduced by the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 for the protection of war … offence. Additional Protocol I of 1977 to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 extends the …
International law on the conduct of hostilities: overview
… Through a series of treaties such as the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, … in the Hague Convention of 1907 and the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their Additional …
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