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Model legislative provisions on the recruitment or use of children in armed conflict - Model law

… Additional Protocols I and II of 1977 to the Geneva Conventions of 1949; as well as • the ICRC … Law 1. Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, and relating to …

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Chemical and biological weapons

… the first international agreement – the 1925 Geneva Protocol – banning asphyxiating, … reprisals using similar weapons, but the 1925 Geneva Protocol had nevertheless established a … legal instruments followed in the form of Conventions adopted by States in 1972 and …

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Discussion on Strengthening Compliance with International Humanitarian Law, Geneva, 8-9 April 2013

… features 8–9 April 2013 Background document Geneva, March 2013 THE PURPOSE OF THIS … which will take place on 17/18 June 2013 in Geneva. The 8/9 April 2013 discussions will … Periodic Review (UPR); UN Human Rights Conventions2; Monitoring and Reporting …

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Strengthening Compliance with IHL – Second Meeting of States on Strengthening Compliance with IHL, June 2013

… Humanitarian Law (IHL) June 17/18, 2013 Geneva Background Document May 2013 Contents … Humanitarian Law June 17/18, 2013 Geneva Background Document 1. Introduction … sensu are provided for in the 1949 Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol 1 thereto …

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From our archives: protecting prisoners and detainees

… the International Prisoner of War Agency in Geneva to centralize information management … Although neither country had signed the 1929 Geneva Convention on prisoners of war, they …

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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Methods of incorporating punishment into criminal law - Factsheet

… questions: • • • • are grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Additional Protocol I … questions: • • • • are grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Additional …

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Contemporary challenges to IHL – Privatization of war: overview

… and their protection assured, by the Fourth Geneva Convention, the Additional Protocols of …

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Biological weapons: Efforts needed to strengthen preventive measures, Meeting of States Parties, 2013

… and on their Destruction, 9-13 December 2013, Geneva. Like many States, the ICRC is … Convention. The ICRC’s Advisory Service, in Geneva and in the field, remains available to … to the inter-sessional process here in Geneva, it is encouraging that various ideas …

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Detention in non-international armed conflict: Consultations with government experts, 2012-2013

… of the Red Cross 19, avenue de la Paix 1202 Geneva, Switzerland T +41 22 734 60 01 F +41 … consensus that the rules found in the 1949 Geneva Conventions applicable in international armed …

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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.

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.