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 …
Informal Meeting on Strengthening Compliance with International Humanitarian Law, Geneva, 13 July 2012 Concluding remarks Purpose of the meeting Today’s meeting has allowed us to appraise the …
During the past ten years there has been much discussion and analysis of so called "incapacitating chemical agents" and of the use of these toxic chemicals as weapons for law enforcement. The ICRC …
Table seeking to provide the war crimes over which the International Criminal Court (ICC) has jurisdiction, together with the definition of such offences as found in other sources of international …
WORKING GROUP MEETING ON STRENGTHENING COMPLIANCE WITH IHL November 8 and 9, 2012 BACKGROUND DOCUMENT GENEVA, OCTOBER 2012 THE PURPOSE OF THIS DOCUMENT IS TO FACILITATE DEBATE AT THE WORKING GROUP …
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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.