The report, based primarily on national practice, offers a pragmatic approach to the prevention and suppression of international crimes, paying particular attention to the Statute of the …
The repression of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, whatever the nationality of the offender and the place where they are committed, is crucial to ensuring respect for international …
Factsheet on methods of incorporating punishment into criminal law . In particular, the following questions/topics are addressed: method of criminalizing violations of international humanitarian law; …
Private military and security companies – known as PMSCs – working in situations of armed conflict are also obliged to respect the provisions of international humanitarian law (IHL). What are PMSCs? …
In recent years, parties to armed conflicts have increasingly recruited private military and security companies (PMSCs) to undertake tasks traditionally carried out by the armed forces. The …
In 2012-2013, the ICRC held four regional consultations with government experts from across Africa, Europe, the Americas, the Caribbean, the Asia Pacific and Middle East. In total, the consultations …
Preparatory Discussion in view of the Third Meeting of States on Strengthening Compliance with IHL of mid-2014 Reporting and Thematic Discussions on IHL and Overview of a Meeting of States December …
This page contains, free of charge, electronic copies of all language versions of an article, published in English in the International Review of the Red Cross, No. 857, 31 March 2005. The article …
The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols are international treaties that contain the most important rules limiting the barbarity of war. They protect people who do not take part in the …
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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.
