Niger: Helping migrants in need
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06-11-2007 Teams representing eight universities from Mainland China participated in a two-day moot court competition on 3-4 November at Renmin University in Beijing. This first ever national round …
15-10-2007 The Chinese version of a world-wide study conducted by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) of the practices on states in times of armed conflict was launched in Beijing on …
21-06-2007 On 18-19 June 2007 a regional meeting entitled "Symposium for the 30th Anniversary of the Adoption of the 1977 Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August, 1949: …
18-02-2004 Geneva (ICRC) - The ICRC is increasingly concerned about the humanitarian impact of the West Bank Barrier on many Palestinians living in occupied territory. Where it deviates from 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.