Australia: ICRC delegation to Australia in Second World War
… due to the organization’s mandate in the Geneva Conventions. After many months of negotiations … with belligerent nations for the 1929 Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War to be …
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The implementation of rules protecting the provision of health care in armed conflicts and other emergencies: A guidance tool
… humanitarian law since the initial Geneva Convention was adopted in 1864. In … on the High Contracting Parties to the 1949 Geneva Conventions, identification cards and armlets …
IHL and other legal regimes
… to IHL as well. IHL is based on the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, … ICRC has a mandate of guardianship under the Geneva Conventions to promote respect and …
How does law protect in war?
… each topic, references to articles from the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols and … Humanitarian Law, an Introduction, Geneva, Henry-Dunant Institute, 1993, 92 pp. …
A century of weapons of mass destruction: Enough!
… of the Red Cross, and through it the 1864 Geneva Convention. Similarly, the 1949 Geneva Conventions, and in particular the Fourth …
Urgent humanitarian needs, prisoners of war top agenda for President Spoljaric’s first visit to Moscow
… 18-01-2023 Geneva (ICRC) - ICRC President Mirjana … to states’ obligations to uphold the Geneva Conventions, which lay out the rules of …
People on War 2016: Background, methodology and results
… is the birthplace of the ICRC and the Geneva Conventions and is home to many international … institutions. The ICRC’s headquarters are in Geneva. The United Kingdom is a permanent …
Protect all humanity by ratifying the nuclear weapon ban treaty
… Last year, the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions , the foundational instruments of …
Nigeria: ECOWAS member states discuss implementation of international humanitarian law
… of IHL treaties, including the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their three Additional … or +234 703 595 41 68 Elodie Schindler, ICRC Geneva, tel: +41 22 730 21 86 or +41 79 217 32 …
The International Committee of the Red Cross in the First World War
… founded in 1863 at the instigation of two Geneva citizens, Henry Dunant and Gustave … approached governments to promote the 1864 Geneva Convention, which accorded wounded and … to it concerning violations of the Geneva Conventions or of the 1907 Hague Conventions …
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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.