A number of legal experts took part in this collective work, written with the collaboration of Jean Pictet. For the section on Protocol I relative to international armed conflicts: Claude Pilloud, …
… project: updating the Commentaries on the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional … Commentaries document developments in how the Geneva Conventions and Protocols have been …
… City to mark the 75th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions and discuss the importance of … law (IHL) in current and future wars. “The Geneva Conventions ensure that a minimum level …
… of the 1977 Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August, 1949: "Principles … June 1977 of the Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of August 1949 ("the …
… Why are your headquarters in Geneva? What was to become the International … met for the first time in February 1863 in Geneva, Switzerland. Among the five members … persuaded governments to adopt the original Geneva Convention. This treaty obliged armies …
… brings together all the States party to the Geneva Conventions, all the National Red Cross and …
… the first Commentaries to the newly adopted Geneva Conventions of 1949, it sent National … Red Cross to requests for information on the Geneva Conventions and cognate questions". The …
… in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross … of the Red Cross 19, avenue de la Paix 1202 Geneva, Switzerland T +41 22 734 60 01 …
… the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) and the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian … States party to Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions. In 2006, the Third Review …
… (with Protocols I, II and III) was adopted at Geneva on 10 October 1980, WHEREAS the State … (with Protocols I, II and III) was adopted at Geneva on 10 October 1980, WHEREAS Review …
Try one of the following resources:
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.
