… issue, the call helped bring about the 1925 Geneva Protocol – still in force today. Battle … invoked the Regulations annexed to the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 respecting the … ICRC efforts Encouraging responses reached Geneva – in particular from the Danish, …
… 10-12-2015 Geneva (ICRC) – After four years of extensive … Red Crescent, which draws to a close today in Geneva. Instead, States agreed to launch an … annual meeting of states party to the Geneva Conventions, a non-politicized forum for them …
… Principles of the Movement and the Geneva Conventions. Support from the people of Tuvalu … 2015 at the International Conference in Geneva, which the TRCS was attending for the …
… (ICRC) – Over 60 years after ratifying the Geneva Conventions , the Philippines has achieved … families." The Philippines ratified the four Geneva Conventions in 1952, and later their …
… 10-10-2014 Geneva / Baku / Erevan (ICRC) – The body of an … border. On the basis of its mandate under the Geneva Conventions, the ICRC has been working in the …
… as provided in Article 5 of the Fourth Geneva Convention). However, a state cannot … and punish violations. IHL is based on the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, …
… Statute, namely, grave breaches of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, violations of the laws and … violations of Article 3 common to the 1949 Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol II, …
… 24-11-2014 Rabat/Geneva (ICRC) – The Moroccan government and … its founding in 1863 it has brought forth the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross …
… agreements between States – treaties or conventions – in customary rules, which … Charter. The main sources of IHL are the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, their Additional … conflict. Noam Lubell, University of Essex / Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian …
… this year marking the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, the ICRC is heartened to see so … to principled humanitarian action and to the Geneva Conventions at the end of this 70th …
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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.
