The conditions listed by the ICRC in its commentary are as follows:

As the ICRC commentary on Protocol I makes clear, this is not a complete ban on the use of children in conflict.

The judgment quoted the 1958 ICRC commentary on the Fourth Geneva Convention: Every person in enemy hands must be either a prisoner of war and, as such, be covered by the Third Convention ; or a civilian covered by the Fourth Convention.

The ICRC commentary on Protocol I makes clear that it does not require a complete ban on the use of children in conflict.

The International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) commentary on Article 5 of the Third Geneva Convention says on the issue of competent tribunal that:

The ICRC had suggested that the Parties to the conflict should " take all necessary measures ", which became in the final text, " take all feasible measures " which is not a total prohibition on their doing so because feasible should be understood as meaning " capable of being done, accomplished or carried out, possible or practicable ".

* 1994 ICRC / UNGA Guidelines for Military Manuals and Instructions on the Protection of the Environment in Time of Armed Conflict

* Principles of International Law Recognized in the Charter of the Nürnberg Tribunal and in the Judgment of the Tribunal, 1950. on the website of the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC )

First aid kits are sometimes marked ( by an individual or organisation ) with a red cross on white background, but use of this symbol by anyone but the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) or associated agency is illegal under the terms of the First Geneva Convention, which designates the red cross as a protected symbol in all countries signatory to it.

* ICRC Commentaries on the Convention ( III ) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War

In the run-up to 2011 International Women's Day, the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) called on States and other entities not to relent in their efforts to prevent rape and other forms of sexual violence that harm the lives and dignity of countless women in conflict zones around the world every year.

The World Jewish Congress also tried-mostly in vain-to convince the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) to assert its authority more forcefully vis-à-vis the Germans, and urged it to secure the status of civilian prisoners of war under the Third Geneva Convention on prisoners of war for those Jews that were confined to ghettos and Nazi concentration camps, which would have entitled the ICRC to provide care to them.

However, the ICRC stuck to the view that it was " in no position to bring pressure to bear upon governments ", and that the success of its work " depended on discreet and friendly successions.

According to the ICRC the design was based on the Swiss flag by reversing of the colours of that flag, in order to honor Switzerland, where the first Geneva Convention was held.

* Burundi – June 4, 1996 – Three ICRC delegates were killed in an attack on two vehicles on the road between the villages of Rugombo and Mugina in the northern province of Cibitoke, resulting in a withdrawal of ICRC from Burundi.

* Baghdad, Iraq – October 27, 2003 – An attack on the ICRC building kills at least 12 people.

Since the mid-1990s, there has also been extensive and growing co-operation between MDA and the ICRC including, among other things, a USD $ 2. 2 million expenditure on strengthening ties between the two organisations, the signing in 2000 of a two year co-operation statement, the permanent placement of an ICRC co-operation officer in MDA headquarters, and extensive support of the MDA's blood bank activities.

On June 22, 2006, MDA was recognised by the ICRC and admitted as a full member of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, following adoption of the Red Crystal symbol in the statutes of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement on the same level as the Red Cross and Red Crescent symbols.

* February 2004 Report of the ICRC on treatment by coalition forces in Iraq

The relevant international conventions, the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) Commentaries, and other treatises by military scholars provide guidelines on such topics as rights and duties of the occupying power, protection of civilians, treatment of prisoners of war, coordination of relief efforts, issuance of travel documents, property rights of the populace, handling of cultural and art objects, management of refugees, and other concerns which are very important both before and after the cessation of hostilities.

Memos summarizing meetings held on October 9, 2003 and February 2, 2004 between General Geoffrey Miller and Vincent Cassard of the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) acknowledged that camp authorities were not permitting the ICRC to have access to Slahi, due to " military necessity.

Yet the civil population effort was not part of the legally defined role of the ICRC and would not be so until the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention.

In times of armed conflict between a signatory of the Geneva conventions and another party, delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) monitor the compliance of signatories to the Geneva Conventions, which includes monitoring the use of torture.

Since June 2006, Magen David Adom has been officially recognized by the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) as the national aid society of the state of Israel under the Geneva Conventions, and a member of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

His reports were so shocking that they led to the founding of the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) in 1863 and the convening of a conference in Geneva in 1864 which drew up the Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field.

The legal mandate of the ICRC stems from the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, as well as its own Statutes.

While in command of the detention facility, he endeavoured to ensure that the provisions of the Geneva Convention were applied, in the face of opposition from then defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, inviting the ICRC to visit and advise on conditions of detention, appointing a Muslim chaplain and creating an ethos of human decency.

Immediately after the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, Junod received a call on October 15, 1935, from a friend in Geneva recommending him to take a position as delegate for the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) in Ethiopia.

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After the outbreak of World War II, Junod was called to Geneva by a letter from the ICRC and was once again made an ICRC delegate, releasing him from his obligations as a medical officer for the Swiss Army.

Once again he organized the forwarding and exchange of information relating to POWs, this time with the support of the ICRC central office for POWs in Geneva.

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After a short break from being a delegate, during part of which he worked in the ICRC headquarters in Geneva, in June 1945 he was sent to Japan and arrived in Tokyo on August 9.

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As the Red Shield of David is not a recognized protection symbol under the Geneva Conventions, Magen David Adom's recognition as a national society by the ICRC was long delayed.

The International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) Commentary to the conventions states that parties to a conflict often would resort to " intimidatory measures to terrorize the population " in hopes of preventing hostile acts, but such practices " strike at guilty and innocent alike.

The ICRC states that " the Draft Agreement has only been put forward to States as a model, but the fact that it as carefully drafted at the Diplomatic Conference, which finally adopted it, gives it a very real value.

The ICRC states that Annex II is a "... draft which, according to Article 109 ( paragraph 1 ) of the Convention, will be applied in the absence of special agreements between the Parties, deals with the conditions for the receipt and distribution of collective relief shipments.

This draft was never adopted as a legally binding treaty, but the ICRC states in its introduction on the draft that " To a great extent, draft rules correspond to the customary rules and general principles underlying treaties on the law of war on land and at sea ", and as such these two non controversial articles were already part of customary law.

The irony is whenever the UNHCR and ICRC are in need of help they can easily find contacts to reach Baluch leaders abroad and inside Baluchistan but when the Baluch need their help they will make lame excuses such as ; the government doesn ’ t allow us to work in Baluchistan, we do not give statement against the government because it is a political risk, and most peculiar excuse they use is that they are ready to help but the families of missing Baluch do not contact them – what a petty .!