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Constraints under International Law on Military Operations in Outer Space during Armed Conflicts

… Protocol I of 8 June 1977 additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 (Additional Protocol I), … armed conflict, whether new or old. The four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Additional …

Law and policy topic

Ukraine: "Level of death, destruction and misery abhorrent and unacceptable"

… capacity as High Contracting Parties of the Geneva Conventions, on the issues at the heart of our … or reasons for war, or jus ad bellum. The Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols …

Statement

Ukraine: Civilians leave Azovstal in safe passage operation

… 03-05-2022 Geneva (ICRC) – Several dozen civilians left … organization, its mandate stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. it is based in Geneva, …

News release

Ukraine: safe passage operation out of Mariupol is ongoing

Geneva (ICRC) – An International Committee of … organization, its mandate stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. it is based in Geneva, …

Statement

Humanitarian needs are enormous around the world, but together we can address them.

… this mandate on the ICRC in the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their 1977 Additional …

Publication

ICRC Activities in Egypt 2021

… conferred upon the organization by the Geneva Conventions of 1949. It also provided …

Article

ICRC Moscow Delegation: in brief

… to 1867 when Russia acceded to the original Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the … in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross …

Publication

Overview of the Legal Framework Governing National Information Bureaux

… families of their fate and whereabouts. The Geneva Conventions do not prescribe in detail how a …

Publication

Yemen: Annual Activity Report 2021

… In line with its mandate under the Geneva Conventions, the ICRC also engages in … In line with its mandate under the Geneva Conventions, the ICRC also engages in …

Report

Internally displaced persons and international humanitarian law – Factsheet

… are to be found mainly in the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention (GC IV) and the 1977 … into Practice: A Stocktaking Exercise, Geneva, 2016, at … The High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Additional Protocol I …

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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.

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.