How Does Law Protect in War? Online platform
… "Cases and Documents," to articles from the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, … research." (Frédérique Mariat, student at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian …
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Sri Lanka: Time does not heal. Only answers do.
… that protect victims of war. It is based in Geneva, Switzerland, and works in more than … organization, its mandate stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. Media contacts: Ruwanthi …
Red Cross Red Crescent: Programmed for war (magazine)
… of warfare is changing rapidly. As the first Geneva Convention of 1864 turns 150 years old …
Limits on Autonomy in Weapon Systems
… Area of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, Geneva, 21 Aug. 2019, … of the ICRC on agenda item 5(a)’, GGE, Geneva, 25–29 Mar. 2019; and ICRC, ‘Statement … harm.e a Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to …
Rules of war (in a nutshell)
People have always used violence to settle disputes. And all cultures have always had the idea that there have to be limits on that violence, if we are to prevent wars from descending into barbarity. …
When an IHL role play competition calls more than just legal knowledge
… were filled with hurried references to the Geneva Conventions, panicked online researching, …
Panel Discussion on Private Military and Security Companies
… Adviser in the IHL Advisory Service, ICRC Geneva; 3- Jean-Michel Rousseau, Montreux … of the Red Cross 19, avenue de la Paix 1202 Geneva, Switzerland T + 41 22 734 60 01 F + 41 … of PMSC personnel under the 1949 Geneva Conventions, individual accountability for …
Exceptional Florence Nightingale Medal awarded to nurses, midwives in captivity
… 12-05-2020 Geneva (ICRC) – The 2020 Florence Nightingale … Nightingale broke away from the social conventions of her time to embrace a vocation … Maurer, please contact: Didier Revol, ICRC Geneva, Tel.: +41 79 235 71 93or …
South Sudan: Facts and figures March 2015 - Promoting the laws that protect civilians in conflict
… on IHL, the core of which is set out in the Geneva Conventions but which is also a part of the … in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red …
Every landmine in the ground is a threat to civilians
… Mines took place on 3-7 December 2012 in Geneva. During this event, the ICRC took the …
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Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.