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Red Cross Red Crescent Conference: Over 160 States gather to address world's most pressing humanitarian issues

… 12-12-2019 Geneva (ICRC/IFRC) - Representatives from 168 … Societies, at the International Conference in Geneva which closed today. The International … brings together States party to the Geneva Conventions and global Red Cross Red Crescent …

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From our archives: The First World War

… ICRC Library / RR / hist-e-05302 Switzerland, Geneva, 1915. Civilians who have fled fighting … the International Prisoners of War Agency in Geneva, which centralized information and … ICRC Library / RR / R. Gilly / hist-01144-05 Geneva. A train passes through Switzerland on …

ICRC president to meet with families of hostages

Geneva (ICRC) – Mirjana Spoljaric, the … hostages today at the ICRC’s headquarters in Geneva. President Spoljaric will also meet … mandate that stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. It helps people around …

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The ICRC calls on sides to spare critical civilian infrastructure in eastern Ukraine

… urgently needed but will take time Geneva/Kyiv (ICRC) – The recent … its mandate stems essentially from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. it is based in …

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ICRC and China should enhance cooperation in humanitarian affairs

… China is a party to the Geneva Conventions and a full partner in dialogue …

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Contemporary Challenges to Humanitarian Action, 7th Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Lecture on International Humanitarian Law

… and exclusion. For the past 150 years, the Geneva Conventions and other bodies of international … will of the parties to a conflict. The Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I …

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Israel and the occupied territories: Horrific suffering of civilians must end

… 07-11-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – One month on, civilians in … humanitarian mandate that stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. It helps people around …

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China: ICRC President concludes official visit to China

… 08-09-2023 Geneva/Beijing (ICRC) – Mirjana Spoljaric, … humanitarian mandate that stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. It helps people around …

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Mexico: Challenges to international humanitarian law and humanitarian action

… in Mexico. -3- For the past 150 years, the Geneva Conventions and other bodies of international … will of the parties to a conflict. The Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I …

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Criminal procedure – Factsheet

… law, such as grave breaches of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional … in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red …

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ICRC library

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.