Contemporary challenges to IHL – Occupation: overview
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Strengthening compliance with IHL: Initial informal Meeting of States, July 2012
… with International Humanitarian Law, Geneva, 13 July 2012 Concluding remarks … Humanitarian Law Friday, 13 July 2012, Geneva, Switzerland Guidance Document … the Conference on the “60 Years of the Geneva Conventions and the Decades Ahead”, States …
Toxic chemicals as weapons for law enforcement: a threat to life and international law?
… the prohibition. Countries agreed the 1925 Geneva Protocol, which banned the use of … of toxic chemicals as weapons under the 1925 Geneva Protocol, the 1993 Chemical Weapons … International Committee of the Red Cross Geneva, September 2012∗ Prohibition This …
War crimes under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and their source in international humanitarian law – Table
… with the following: Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional … to the Hague Convention No. IV, the 1925 Geneva Protocol, the 1954 Hague Convention for …
Discussions on Strengthening Compliance with International Humanitarian Law, Geneva, 8-9 November 2012
… November 8 and 9, 2012 BACKGROUND DOCUMENT GENEVA, OCTOBER 2012 THE PURPOSE OF THIS … mechanisms provided for under the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their 1977 Additional …
Strengthening compliance with IHL: Meeting with a group of States, November 2012
… with International Humanitarian Law (IHL), Geneva, 8/9 November 2012 … The meeting of States held on 13 July 2012 in Geneva showed broad agreement on the need to … mechanisms provided for under the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the First Additional Protocol …
Internal conflicts or other situations of violence – what is the difference for victims?
… armed conflict. Article 3 common to the Geneva Conventions – called "common" because it is identical in each of the four Geneva Conventions – does not use the term …
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 …
Contemporary challenges for IHL
… the misuse of conventional weapons. Under the Geneva Conventions and customary international law, …
The ICRC: 150 years of humanitarian action
… The ICRC was founded on 17 February 1863 in Geneva. © ICRC / hist-00113 Danish military ambulance, 1878. The 1864 Geneva Convention established a unique … First World War, 1914-1918: Rath Museum, Geneva, 1949. International Prisoner-of-War …
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