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… in the event of armed conflict, held in Geneva on 5 and 6 October 2000. Bien … Conflict Report on the Meeting of Experts (Geneva, 5-6 October 2000) Marı́a Teresa Dutli … law. Contained essentially in the 1949 Geneva Conventions for the protection of the victims …
… Protocol I of 8 June 1977 additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 (Additional Protocol I), … armed conflict, whether new or old. The four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Additional …
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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.
