… the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, the International Committee of … humanitarian law of which the 1949 Geneva Conventions are a key component. The …
… kind of human emotions and fears that the Geneva Conventions of 1949 take account of as they … of the Cold War, it was clear that the Geneva Conventions of 1906 and 1929 were not …
… limits. While 2019 marks 70 years of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, Viet Nam celebrates 62 years of ratifying these Conventions. …
… academic platform for legal debates Theme The Geneva Conventions turn 70 The year 2019 marks the 70th anniversary of the four Geneva Conventions (GCs) of 1949. Today, the …
… States can fulfil their commitments under the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and other treaties of …
… 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 …
… IHL, enshrined in Article 1 common to the Geneva Conventions – which marked their 70th anniversary this month. Like the Geneva Conventions, the Arms Trade Treaty aims …
… violations of IHL. Seventy years ago, the Geneva Conventions were the first treaties to …
… 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 …
… a five-year project, initiated in 2014 by the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian … of International Humanitarian Law at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian … of the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional …
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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.
