Protection of cultural property - Questions & answers
… as the 1977 Additional Protocols to the 1949 Geneva Conventions. An archaeological building … got questions? Tweet them to @ICRC using #GenevaConventions. Read more : Attacks on our …
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The protection of journalists - FAQ
… media personnel (Article 4 A (4) of the Third Geneva Convention and Article 79 of Additional …
IHL resources for media professionals
… LAW TREATY LAW People protected by the four Geneva Conventions of 1949: • the wounded and the sick on land (First Geneva Convention) • the wounded, the sick and …
My message to the Movement: It’s time to awaken the giant.
… in many places and by many belligerents. The Geneva Conventions are not up for negotiation ; they …
Choosing humanity: new video and online game challenge us to confront how numb we have become to abuses to the rules of war
… 07-11-2017 Geneva (ICRC) - The ICRC this week launches a … with a new way of engaging with the Geneva Conventions. The interactive microsite …
Malaysia: 14th National IHL Moot Court Competition
… State of Toukanov was a party to: - 1949 Geneva Conventions 1977 Protocols I and II Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 Rome …
Exhibition marks ICRC’s 25 years in Armenia
… affected by the conflict, mandated by the Geneva Conventions to protect and to assist them. For …
China: Law schools vie for top spot in humanitarian law competition
… the means and methods of warfare. The Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional …
War in cities: Towards a holistic response
… began by underlining that all parties to the Geneva Conventions shared a responsibility for …
Meeting of the States Parties to the Biological weapons convention - 2017
… and on their Destruction, 4–8 December 2017, Geneva. Statement by the ICRC Efforts to … prohibit biological weapons through the 1925 Geneva Protocol and the Biological Weapons … States still holding reservations to the Geneva Protocol to withdraw them, since the …
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