Prof. Dr Lok Raj Baral, social scientist and political analyst, underlined the interrelation between society and law in his inaugural speech at the opening of the Advanced IHL South Asia Academics …
The east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a scene of repeated armed clashes, which have forced thousands of families to flee their homes. Being accepted in another community and finding a …
Fatima gets to meet her husband Abdul for only one week every year. While she is in Zamboanga, he is in Manila – both opposite ends of the country of Philippines . Abdul was detained in September …
International Humanitarian Law at the National Level: Impact and Role ofNational Committees International Humanitarian Law at the National Level: Impact and Role ofNational Committees 12.8.2003 15:31 …
A strange-looking object caught the attention of seven-year-old Saw Khu Thauy and his nine-year-old friend. But little did they know that what seemed like a toy was in fact an unexploded ordnance …
On 20 June 2019, Academicians, journalists, and humanitarian professionals came together in Dhaka to discuss the challenges and relevance of international humanitarian law (IHL) and customary law …
During 2019, the ICRC expanded its operations in the country in order to respond to the most urgent needs of the Venezuelan population in an impartial, neutral and independent manner, in cooperation …
Story by Mari Aftret Mortvedt, ICRC The Al Hol camp in Syria is filled with children , mostly from Syria , but there are faces from every continent. In fact, two-thirds of the 70,000 people living in …
Every 13 April, Lebanon commemorates the painful memory of the start of the 15-year-long civil war that raged from 1975 until 1990. The war left thousands of civilians wounded and thousands others …
In the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh , schools are often caught in the crossfire when violence erupts. In the Marj Ben Amer School, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) …
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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.
