… 06-04-2020 Geneva (ICRC) – Detaining authorities around … spread of Ebola and cholera in prisons. The Geneva Conventions require that prisoners of war and …
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… as provided in Article 5 to the Fourth Geneva Convention). However, a State cannot … and punish violations. IHL is based on the Geneva and Hague Conventions, Additional Protocols and a series …
… circumstances ( Article 1 common to the 1949 Geneva Conventions; Article 1 of Additional Protocol 1 to the Geneva Conventions. See also 31st IC, …
… 24-03-2015 Kuala Lumpur / Geneva (ICRC) – The Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) – … the Red Cross and Red Crescent in December in Geneva, Switzerland. This is where all States party to the 1949 Geneva Conventions – the cornerstone of IHL – will …
… Rights Council, United Nations Office at Geneva, Switzerland. Speech given by Mr. Peter … of the 1977 Additional Protocols of the Geneva Conventions in June. Negotiated and agreed in …
… Cross and Red Crescent Societies. The four Geneva Conventions, as they are known today, were … of warfare. Three Protocols additional to the Geneva Conventions were later adopted. They …
… 26-03-2022 Geneva (ICRC) - Over the past days, false … of war and other persons protected by the Geneva Conventions, wherever they may be. Our sole …
… Minister H.E. Zhou Enlai, recognizing the Geneva Conventions on behalf of the People’s Republic … when we mark 75 years since the adoption of Geneva Conventions of 1949. China’s call for …
… Humanitarian Law (IHL) First Formal Meeting Geneva, 28-29 November 2016 Background note … participation of all States parties to the Geneva Conventions of 1949. They served primarily to …
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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.
