… humanely and with dignity. According to the Geneva Conventions, states party to an international … torture. We work on the basis of the Third Geneva Convention, which states that the …
… "grave breaches" regime laid down in the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional … violations of Article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and of Additional …
… IHL 1 and 2 December 2014 BACKGROUND DOCUMENT GENEVA, OCTOBER 2014 Contents 1. Introduction … States on Strengthening Compliance with IHL, Geneva, 30 June – 1 July 2014 … of armed conflicts, as defined in the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional …
… of the Red Cross (ICRC) is mandated by the Geneva Conventions (also known as International … consistent with the provision of the Fourth Geneva Convention which guarantees protection …
… of international crimes. Under the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I of 1977, … serious violations of IHL covered by the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the 1977 Additional …
… Arts 48, 51 and 52 Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to … 54 AP I; Art. 14 Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and …
… as The Hague Convention of 1907 and the 1906 Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the … among other key treaties and rules, the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the Additional …
… on the 1977 Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions. This involves a definition of a … demands for regulation that led to the Fourth Geneva Convention and the subsequent …
… In this year, the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, we are asking States to restate … forms of sexual violence are a violation. The Geneva Conventions made this prohibition clear …
… the prohibition. Countries agreed the 1925 Geneva Protocol, which banned the use of … of toxic chemicals as weapons under the 1925 Geneva Protocol, the 1993 Chemical Weapons … International Committee of the Red Cross Geneva, September 2012∗ Prohibition This …
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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.
