… On the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, the International Committee of … technology to give greater access to the Geneva Conventions, and other treaties and …
… to the Updated Commentary on the First Geneva Convention, makes comments at the … / ICRC The Updated Commentary on the First Geneva Convention was launched at the China … of updating the Commentary on the First Geneva Convention relating to the protection …
By Helen Durham, director of international law and policy at the ICRC. Don't dismiss the law of war – it has never been better known by the public and the outrage expressed when it is breached has …
The First Convention is a foundational text of international humanitarian law. It contains the essential rules on the protection of the wounded and sick, those assigned to their care, and the red …
… and at the beginning of the Cold War, the Geneva Conventions deepened the body of treaty law … and Other International Organizations, Geneva, and the ICRC, hosted an expert …
… Beijing to mark the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions , a set of rules that establish … met in any situation of armed conflict. The Geneva Conventions restrict means and methods …
… texts of the two Protocols additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, as adopted on 8 … Law applicable in Armed Conflicts (Geneva, 1974-77). It also includes extracts …
… Third Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 Model instrument of … TO THE THIRD ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS ADOPTED ON 8 DECEMBER 2005 …
… host celebrations to mark 70 years of the Geneva Conventions on 12 August in Port Moresby. … and emerging trends in the application of Geneva Conventions and a photo exhibition on …
… This is not an abridged commentary on the Conventions and their Additional Protocols, …
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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.
