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National implementation of IHL: Documentation
States party to international humanitarian law treaties must take certain legal and administrative measures to comply with the obligations they have undertaken. This section deals with various topics which are covered by the treaties and are the focus of Advisory Service promotional activities, including topics that have been highlighted by the recent adoption of international instruments, thus creating a new incentive for states to adopt implementation measures.
- Children
- Civil defence
- Cultural property
- Dissemination of IHL
- Emblem
- Environment and warfare
- Fact finding commission
- Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols
- Health
- Internally displaced persons
- International criminal law
- International humanitarian law
- Islamic law and IHL
- The missing
- Parliaments
- Penal repression
- Persons with disabilities
- Sexual violence
- Torture and other forms of ill-treatment
- Use of force in law enforcement
- Weapons
- Highlights
- Next event
Cultural property
- Factsheet - 1954 Convention on the protection of cultural property
- Ratification kit - 1954 Convention for the protection of cultural property in t…
- Model law - Protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict
- Guidelines - Practical advice for the protection of cultural property in the ev…
- Report - Protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict
Emblem
- Study - Operational and commercial and other non-operational issues involving t…
- Factsheet - The protection of the red cross, red crescent and red crystal emble…
- Model law - National legislation on the use and protection of the emblem
- Ratification kit - Third Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of 1949
Environment and warfare
Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols
- Ratification kit - 1977 Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions of 1949
- Ratification kit- Third Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of 1949
- Model law - Geneva Conventions (Consolidation) Act
- Model law - Geneva Conventions Act (for common law States)
- Factsheet - 1977 Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions of 1949
Health
Internally displaced persons
International criminal law
- Factsheet - General principles of international criminal law
- Factsheet - Universal jurisdiction over war crimes
- Ratification kit - Statute of the International Criminal Court
- Factsheet - Statute of the International Criminal Court
- Article 8 - Statute of the International Criminal Court
- Compendium - Issues raised regarding the Rome Statute of the ICC by national Co…
- Factsheet - International criminal justice: The institution
- Table - War crimes under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court a…
International humanitarian law
General information
Law implementation
- Factsheet - Implementing international humanitarian law : from law to action
- Factsheet - Guidelines for assessing the compatibility between national law and…
- Factsheet - The exchange of information on national measures to implement IHL
- Factsheet - ICRC database on national measures implementing international human…
- Facsheet - Means of personal identification
- Factsheet - National Committees for the implementation of international humanit…
- Factsheet - Online Community for National Committees and Similar Entities on IHL
Islamic law and IHL
- Factsheet - Islamic Law and International Humanitarian Law
- An introduction to the main principles - Islamic law and international humanita…
- An overview- IHL and Islam
- An interview - The Intersection of IHL and Islamic Law
- Article - IHL and Islamic law in the protection of Children in Armed conflicts
- Article - Management of the dead from Islamic law and international humanitaria…
- Article - International Committee of The Red-Cross(ICRC) Management of the Dead…
- Publication - Management of the dead under Islamic law
- Article - First global expert workshop on IHl and Islamic Law in contemporary a…
- Report- Experts' workshop report on IHL and Islamic Law in Contemporary Armed C…
- Article - Indonesia: ICRC strengthens collaboration with religious circles
- Article - Australia: Why the ICRC is talking about the Islamic Laws of War in A…
- Videos - Muslim Scholars Present Their Perspectives on Islamic Law and IHL
Penal repression
- Factsheet - Obligations in terms of penal repression
- Factsheet - Penal repression: Punishing war crimes
- Factsheet - Methods of incorporating punishment into criminal law
- Factsheet - Command responsibility and failure to act
- Factsheet - Criminal procedure
- Factsheet - Judicial guarantees and safeguards
- Factsheet - Cooperation in extradition and judicial assistance in criminal matt…
- Factsheet - Elements to render sanctions more effective
- Report - National measures to repress violations of international humanitarian …
- Report - Analysis of the punishments applicable to international crimes (war cr…
- Report - Role of domestic jurisdictions in the implementation of IHL, law and p…
- Factsheet - Amnesties and IHL : Purpose and scope
Persons with disabilities
Torture and other forms of ill-treatment
Use of force in law enforcement
Weapons
Anti-personnel mines
- Factsheet - 1997 Convention on the prohibition of anti-personnel mines and on t…
- Model law - Model of legislation to implement the 1997 Convention on the prohib…
- Information kit - Development of national legislation to implement the Conventi…
- Checklist - Domestic measures to implement the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Conventi…
