… from all countries, including China. In Geneva and in the countries that I visit, I … The ICRC is also the guardian of the Geneva Conventions, the laws which govern how …
… Committee of the Red Cross and the Geneva Conventions that followed. And while the ICRC still has its headquarters in Geneva, we are a truly global organization of …
… (ibid.). 12 ICRC, Children in War, ICRC, Geneva, 2009, available at: … objects under IHL.19 In particular, the Geneva Conventions (GC) and Additional Protocol I (AP …
… Protocol 1, Article 51(2); see also Geneva Convention IV, Article 33(1) and … the Senior Humanitarian Policy adviser at NRC Geneva, specializing in the impact of … action. Prior to joining the NRC in Geneva in 2015, she spent eight years managing …
… authorities in the domestication of the Geneva Conventions, Kampala Convention, and the Arms …
… to family members and loved ones. Through the Geneva Conventions, the international community has …
… 20-08-2018 Tokyo/Geneva – Speaking today at a meeting of … information, please contact Matthew Clancy (Geneva): +41 79 574 15 54; mclancy@icrc.org …
… which is enshrined in Article 1 common to the Geneva Conventions and in the principles of the Arms …
… the relationship with IHL in international conventions addressing terrorism, as acts of … Mr. Benjamin Charlier, Legal Adviser, ICRC Geneva, gave an update on the 4th Universal … held on 30 November – 2 December 2016 in Geneva. The meeting was organized by the ICRC …
… were in force for Plant and Page: The 1949 Geneva Conventions; the 1977 Additional Protocols; … and Cultural Rights, 3 (1966), the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the two …
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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.
