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Weapon contamination
Long after the last shot in a conflict is fired, unexploded and abandoned weapons continue to kill and maim. In the last decade alone, they took more than 17,000 lives and injured over 70,000. …
Weapon contamination
Long after the last shot in a conflict is fired, unexploded and abandoned weapons continue to kill and maim. In the last decade alone, they took more than 17,000 lives and injured over 70,000. People …
The International Tracing Service and the ICRC
The ITS traces the victims of Nazi persecution and their families, documents their fate and makes its archives available for research. The ICRC managed the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad …
Peru: search for the missing "From the Field" series
It is 27 years since her husband disappeared but Adelina is still searching for him. He is one of 15,000 Peruvians reported missing, caught up in battles between the Shining Path, a Maoist guerrilla …
Guiding Principles for the Domestic Implementation of a Comprehensive System of Protection for Children Associated with Armed Forces or Armed Groups
Guiding principles intended to support States in the implementation of a system of protection for children recruited by armed forces or armed groups. ADVISORY SERVICE ON INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN …
Cluster munitions
Cluster munitions have had a severe impact on civilians, killing and injuring large numbers and causing long lasting socio-economic problems. In 2008, governments negotiated and adopted the …
Review of new weapons
Parties to an armed conflict are limited in their choice of weapons, and in the means and methods of warfare they use, by the rules of international Parties to an armed conflict are limited in their …
Explosive remnants of war
Each year large numbers of civilians are killed and injured by "explosive remnants of war". These are the unexploded weapons such as artillery shells, mortars, grenades, bombs and rockets, left …
Weapons
International humanitarian law contains basic principles and rules governing the choice of weapons and prohibits or restricts the employment of certain weapons. The ICRC plays a leading role 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.
IHL treaties
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 IHL
Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.