Command responsibility and failure to act – Factsheet
… FAILING TO ACT The system established in the Geneva Conventions of 1949 for repressing grave … prevent or punish the criminal conduct. The Geneva Conventions of 1949 The Geneva …
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ICRC database on national measures implementing international humanitarian law
… specific laws, statutes and acts (e.g. Geneva Conventions Acts); parts of more general laws … and compiled at ICRC headquarters in Geneva. Any comments on the Database are …
Judicial guarantees and safeguards – Factsheet
… of serious violations of any of the four Geneva Conventions (GC I-IV) or of Additional … of the domestic law of States party to the Geneva Conventions, and roughly correspond to …
General principles of international criminal law – Factsheet
… certain crimes in international law The 1949 Geneva Conventions and their 1977 Additional … crimes – in particular grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions – and crimes against …
International Criminal Justice: The Institutions
… Statute, namely, grave breaches of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, violations of the laws and … violations of Article 3 common to the 1949 Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol II, …
Missing and Deceased Migrants and their Families
… in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross …
A statement from Robert Mardini, the director-general of the International Committee of the Red Cross, after his visit to Israel and occupied Palestinian territory this week
… won't be solved by reciting the Fourth Geneva Convention. But simply complying with …
How diverse leadership shaped responses to COVID-19 within the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
… its mandate stems essentially from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. Humanitarian Horizons …
The challenges for humanitarian action in today’s conflicts: the perspective from the International Committee of the Red Cross
… and through our permanent dialogue in Moscow, Geneva and other capitals. The ICRC operates … through the mandate provided by States in the Geneva Conventions and in other frameworks governing …
ICRC’s Fifth IHL Arabic Writing Competition
… to climate change - Common Article 1 of the Geneva Conventions: States' obligation to respect and …
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