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Development of national legislation to implement the Convention on the prohibition of anti-personnel mines – Information kit
ADVISORY SERVICE ON INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW ____________________________________ Development of national legislation to implement the Convention on the prohibition of anti-personnel mines - …
International Conference – the Pacific perspective
183 nationalities gathered in Geneva under the banner of "Our World, Your Move – For Humanity." This video looks at the 31st International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and …
Falklands / Malvinas: The ICRC’s role, 30 years on
2 April 2012 is the 30th anniversary of the start of the conflict between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the Falklands/Malvinas. Edmond Corthésy was head of the ICRC's Buenos Aires delegation …
Strengthening compliance with IHL: Meeting with a group of States, April 2013
2nd Discussion on Strengthening Compliance with International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Functions of a possible IHL compliance system and their features 8–9 April 2013 Background document Geneva, March …
National committees
National Committees for the implementation of international humanitarian law (IHL) exist in many countries to advise and assist governments in implementing and spreading knowledge of IHL. Setting up …
How does law protect in war?
Cases, documents and teaching materials on contemporary practice in international humanitarian law. A selection of nearly three hundred case studies provides university professors, practitioners and …
Interview: How does law protect in war? A new edition of the ICRC's casebook
As part of its mandate to promote and strengthen the teaching and understanding of international humanitarian law (IHL), the ICRC has published a third, expanded and updated edition of its IHL …
Contemporary challenges to IHL – Occupation: overview
Under IHL, there is occupation when a State exercises an unconsented-to effective control over a territory on which it has no sovereign title. Article 42 of The Hague Regulations of 1907 defines …
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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.
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.