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… that High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 have the primary … and Red Crescent, held in December 2015 in Geneva, served as an important platform for …
… supports the efforts of States Party to the Geneva Conventions to respect and ensure respect for …
… care, which amount to a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions, are penalized as such in domestic …
… are prohibited under treaty law (the Fourth Geneva convention, as well as Additional … together the States Parties to the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the components of the …
… to the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Geneva, Switzerland. As you know, the …
… International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva. International Committee of the Red Cross 19, avenue de la Paix 1202 Geneva, Switzerland T +41 22 734 60 01 F +41 … 9 of the First, Second and Third Geneva Conventions and Article 10 of the Fourth …
… 150 years ago, Henry Dunant, a citizen of Geneva, was an unwilling witness to the … following year, States adopted the original Geneva Convention to improve the lot of people … Second World War, States amended the existing Conventions and adopted new ones in order to …
… in the world. It is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross …
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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.
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.
