Treaties and customary law
… a large number of treaties, in particular the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional … unwritten customs. In that year the First Geneva Convention was adopted. It proved to be …
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Contemporary challenges to IHL – Respect for IHL: overview
… to an armed conflict under article 1 of the Geneva Conventions to respect and ensure respect for …
Refugees and displaced persons protected under international humanitarian law
… receive special protection under the Fourth Geneva Convention and Additional Protocol I. …
Wounded, sick and shipwrecked protected under international humanitarian law
… was the founding principle of the First Geneva Convention signed in 1864. It remained … the conduct of war, now consolidated in the Geneva Conventions of 1949, three Additional …
Education programmes for young people
… pacifying effect. States party to the Geneva Conventions are required, both in peacetime …
Prisoners of war and detainees protected under international humanitarian law
… The third Geneva Convention provides a wide range of … specific and were first detailed in the 1929 Geneva Convention. They were refined in the … Article 3 common to the 1949 Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol II provide …
Women protected under international humanitarian law
… general protection is provided by the four Geneva Convention (1949) and their Additional …
IHL and human rights law
… 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 …
International Criminal Court
… 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 …
International law on the conduct of hostilities: overview
… Through a series of treaties such as the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, … in the Hague Convention of 1907 and the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their Additional …
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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.