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The major sources of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) are :

The core treaty framework is the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, supplemented by Additional Protocols I and II adopted in 1977. Those protocols extend protection in…

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The core treaty framework is the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, supplemented by Additional Protocols I and II adopted in 1977. Those protocols extend protection in international and non-international armed conflicts respectively. Additional Protocol III was adopted in 2005, so it does not increase the number of 1977 protocols.

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