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Cyber Warfare: does International Humanitarian Law apply?

… to First Additional Protocol to the 1949 Geneva Conventions – that international humanitarian …

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Ecuador: Regional Meeting of National Committees on IHL and Other Similar Entities of the Americas

… including the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions. Finally, the participating … parties to the four universally recognized Geneva Conventions of 1949 and to the states …

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Teaching IHL through digital resources: a syllabus for interactive remote teaching

… Archives The sixth and seventh pages of the Geneva Convention of 22 August 1864. 1. … - Historical development of IHL o Law of Geneva vs Law of The Hague - Sources of … nationality (but Article 44 of the Fourth Geneva Convention) if the third country is an …

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International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law: Similarities and Differences

… in international armed conflict are the four Geneva IHL is a set of international rules, … methods and means of warfare of their choice. Conventions of 1949 and their Additional … armed conflict are article 3 common to the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol II …

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Updated Commentary on the Geneva Conventions of August 12 1949. Volume I, 2016 (Paperback)

The First Convention is a foundational text of international humanitarian law. It contains the essential rules on the protection of the wounded and sick, those assigned to their care, and the red …

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Key findings on supporting and strengthening work with relatives of missing persons

… of the Red Cross 19, Avenue de la Paix 1202 Geneva, Switzerland … Persons: A Handbook for Parliamentarians, Geneva, 2009, available at: … Persons: A Handbook for Parliamentarians, Geneva, 2009; ICRC, Accompanying the Families …

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Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

… Department of International Law and Policy in Geneva can provide guidance on implementing … in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross …

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Physical Rehabilitation programme in the DPRK

… emergency preparedness, promotion of Geneva Conventions and capacity building of the …

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Moveability Liquidation

… for Physical Therapy (WCPT) Congress in Geneva in May. An URCMHS staff member … attendance to the WCPT Congress, held in Geneva. PHYSICAL REHABILITATION ENTITY • … signed or ratified several disability-related conventions. It ratified the UNCRPD in 2008 …

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He’s being missed

… PERSONS AND THEIR FAMILIES IHL (the 1949 Geneva Conventions, its 1977 Additional Protocols and …

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ICRC library

Created in 1863, the ICRC library, alongside the ICRC archives, provides an indispensable documentary reference on the organization itself and international humanitarian law.

IHL treaties

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 IHL

Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.