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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The scope and application of the principle of universal jurisdiction: ICRC statement to the United Nations, 2014
… and addressing the impunity gap. The Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Additional Protocol I … any or a combination of grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I, …
Analysis of the punishments applicable to international crimes (war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide) in domestic law and practice
… of the IHL rules are set out in the four 1949 Geneva Conventions and the 1977 Additional Protocols. … IHL. These are specific acts, listed in the Geneva Conventions and Protocol I, and include …
Rules for the ages? London debate sets out challenges facing IHL
… the panel to reflect on the value of the Geneva Conventions . Cordula Droege, chief legal … IHL... but equally we see every day how the Geneva Conventions do work and do protect …
Russia-Ukraine international armed conflict: 23,000 people reported missing
… 19-02-2024 Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of … of the frontline. In accordance with the Geneva Conventions, both Russia and Ukraine …
Internal conflicts or other situations of violence – what is the difference for victims?
… armed conflict. Article 3 common to the Geneva Conventions – called "common" because it is identical in each of the four Geneva Conventions – does not use the term …
Amnesties and IHL: Purpose and Scope
… States party to the 1949 Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I of 1977 … Article 6(5) of Protocol II additional to the Geneva Conventions relating to …
Chemical and biological weapons
… the first international agreement – the 1925 Geneva Protocol – banning asphyxiating, … reprisals using similar weapons, but the 1925 Geneva Protocol had nevertheless established a … legal instruments followed in the form of Conventions adopted by States in 1972 and …
National committees
… States to fulfil their obligations under the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the Additional … 2005 as well as other IHL instruments. The Geneva Conventions do not require the creation …
Ready-to-use workshop on protection of health care in armed conflict
… Law Treaty Law o Common art. 3 to the Geneva Conventions: Conflicts not of an international … and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field. Geneva, 12 August 1949 Chapter II : Wounded …
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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.