A/HRC/28/76 (d) The Guidelines for the Domestic Facilitation and Regulation of International Disaster Relief and Initial Recovery Assistance, adopted at the thirtieth International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in 2007, and the Code of Conduct in the event of disasters; (e) The International Law and Standards Applicable in Natural Disaster Situations of the International Development Law Organization; (f) The World Vision Minimum Inter-Agency Standards for Protection Mainstreaming;41 (g) B. The Food Assistance Convention. International humanitarian law and mechanisms 52. The Geneva Conventions and the Additional Protocols thereto are at the core of international humanitarian law, the body of international law that seeks to limit the effects of armed conflict. They restrict the means and methods of warfare and protect people who are not or no longer participating in hostilities (civilians, medical and other health professionals, humanitarian personnel, the wounded, sick or shipwrecked, or prisoners of war). The Conventions and the Protocols thereto call for measures to be taken to prevent or to put an end to all violations of international humanitarian law. They contain stringent rules to deal with “grave breaches”. Those responsible for grave breaches must be sought, tried or extradited, whatever their nationality. 53. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and other situations of violence and to provide them with assistance. ICRC also endeavours to prevent suffering by promoting and strengthening humanitarian law and universal humanitarian principles. Its work is based on the Geneva Conventions of 1949, the Additional Protocols thereto, its Statutes, the Statutes of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and the resolutions of the International Conferences of the Red Cross and Red Crescent. ICRC addresses the effects of conflict by, for instance, focusing attention on refugees and displaced persons (in complementarity with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)), mine clearance, training armed forces in the use of legitimate force, doctrine development and counselling. One of its main activities is also the search for missing persons; in this area, it has formulated an international standard of ante- and post-mortem using forensic DNA analysis. ICRC forms part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Seven fundamental principles guarantee the continuity of the Movement’s work: humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity and universality. C. Regional institutions and mechanisms for humanitarian aid and assistance 54. Various regional, subregional and national multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder initiatives evaluate and implement humanitarian assistance and human rights law in postdisaster and post-conflict situations. 41 Available from http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Full_Report_3752.pdf. 15