After looking at the legal challenges posed by the increasing development and use of new technologies in warfare, the Reseach and debate cycle on new technologies and the modern battlespace now …
Factsheet on measures of national implementation regarding torture and other forms of ill-treatment. In particular th e following questions/topics are addressed : definition of torture and other …
Children kidnapped and trained as soldiers, girls snatched and forced to be “wives,” entire villages reduced to ash. Between 2008 and 2011, communities in Orientale province, northeast Democratic …
Biannual update on national implementation of international humanitarian law, July–December 2013 International Review of the Red Cross, Page 1 of 15. 10.1017/S1816383114000459 REPORTS AND DOCUMENTS …
Establishing a dedicated IHL compliance system , Opening speech, ICRC President, Peter Maurer Third Meeting of States on Strengthening Compliance with International Humanitarian Law (IHL) 30 June and …
As a result of a military operation in North Waziristan, in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced to various districts in neighbouring Khyber …
Peter Maurer has begun a three-day mission to see for himself the human cost of the on-going conflict. …
Country-wide intensification of hostilities has claimed the lives of thousands and worsened access to water, food, and basic health-care services for tens of thousands of people. Over three million …
The 1989-1997 civil war in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea left as many as 20,000 dead. The fate and whereabouts of many who vanished following the outbreak of violence remain unknown. This causes …
Since the outbreak of fighting in Al-Anbar region last December, the humanitarian situation in west and north Iraq has become extremely bad, particularly for displaced people. Minorities in …
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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.
