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… international law. Treaties, such as the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, are written conventions … add to existing treaty law? While the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 have been ratified …
… and the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions to come together and shape the … received messages from the school children of Geneva, who thank the Red Cross and Red …
… organizing committee of the competition in Geneva in 1996 Coach in 1997 GENERATING … IMAGINATION* ‘One of the worst enemies of the Geneva Conventions is ignorance.’1 Jean Pictet …
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… 11-09-2014 Geneva (ICRC) – An Azerbaijani citizen who … family. On the basis of its mandate under the Geneva Conventions, the ICRC has been working in the …
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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.
