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Strengthening compliance with international humanitarian law: The work of the ICRC and the Swiss government (2015-2019)

… by the co-facilitators 1. Introduction The 32nd International Conference of the Red Cross … Advisory Committee on Best Practices and Main Challenges in the Promotion and Protection of … offer a platform for participants to discuss contemporary IHL issues and share information …

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Strengthening international humanitarian law

… It is respect for the law that is lacking. Contemporary armed conflicts repeatedly … is one such area. To address some of these challenges, the ICRC is currently has … draft elements of two resolutions for the 32nd International Conference, for feedback by …

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International Humanitarian Law Bibliography

… The ICRC International Humanitarian Law Bibliography … 41 XV. Contemporary challenges … : an Achilles' heel ? : reflections on the 32nd International Conference of the Red Cross …

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International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC): Management of the Dead under Islamic Law - Article

… by God in the perfect shape. Forensic Science International: Reports 3 (2021) 100196 … of the Islamic law position on specific challenges and questions relating to … [9,10]. This text, however, addresses several contemporary issues and challenges faced by …

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Historical Timeline—ICRC, Geneva Conventions and the Republic of Korea

… Dunant and four men founded what is today the International Committee of the Red … Afghanistan and Iraq, raised a number of new challenges for the ICRC. Ghor province, … on the Geneva Conventions’ relevance to contemporary armed conflicts and humanitarian …

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ICRC President Samuel Gonard visits the ROK

Ninth Senior Workshop on International Rules Governing Military Operations (SWIRMO).

… armed conflicts, of the legal and practical challenges we encounter, and of the common … humanitarian law and the challenges of contemporary armed conflicts . A new edition … in the coming weeks, on the occasion of the 32nd International Conference of the Red Cross …

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Meeting of States on strengthening compliance with international humanitarian law

… will be presented in a final report to the 32nd International Conference of the Red Cross … on humanitarian access. The main problem in contemporary conflicts is not the lack of … discuss the application of IHL and current challenges to compliance with it. During the …

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Informal Meeting on Strengthening Compliance with International Humanitarian Law, Geneva, 13 July 2012

… the occurrence of a great number of contemporary humanitarian concerns could be … question of compliance with IHL as one of the challenges facing IHL. More recently, the … in order to identify and propose to the 32nd International Conference a range of …

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Detention in non-international armed conflict: Consultations with government experts, 2012-2013

… ICRC's reading of the humanitarian and legal challenges associated with detention in … humanitarian and legal challenges posed by contemporary NIACs. 2 For a list of … its recommendations for going forward to the 32nd International Conference, to be held in …

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ICRC 2024 Opinion Paper - How is the term "Armed Conflict" defined in international humanitarian law?

… whether a situation of violence is an international armed conflict (IAC) or a … the ICRC's approach in legally classifying contemporary armed conflicts. It makes the … Conventions and reports on "IHL and the challenges of contemporary armed conflicts" ). …

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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.

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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.

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Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.