… of the repression mechanism laid down in the Geneva Conventions of 1949 for serious violations of … of having committed grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949. This option is …
… in the 1977 First Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 (AP I). The Fourth Geneva Convention for the protection of …
… international and non-international. The 1949 Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols of 1977 and 2005 are its core treaties. The Geneva Conventions have been accepted by all …
… 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 …
… 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 …
… FAILING TO ACT The system established in the Geneva Conventions of 1949 for repressing grave … prevent or punish the criminal conduct. The Geneva Conventions of 1949 The Geneva …
… specific laws, statutes and acts (e.g. Geneva Conventions Acts); parts of more general laws … and compiled at ICRC headquarters in Geneva. Any comments on the Database are …
… of serious violations of any of the four Geneva Conventions (GC I-IV) or of Additional … of the domestic law of States party to the Geneva Conventions, and roughly correspond to …
… certain crimes in international law The 1949 Geneva Conventions and their 1977 Additional … crimes – in particular grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions – and crimes against …
… The Geneva Conventions enjoy universal acceptance, even …
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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.
