The latest escalation which broke out in May 2021 in Gaza and Israel is one of the most intense hostilities that we, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), have witnessed in the region …
… of IHL to the fight against international terrorism, cyber warfare and the use of …
25th session, Human Rights Council The ICRC would like to address the impact of armed conflict on children's access to education and the specific measures that can be taken to improve the protection …
… countries' legitimacy to take counterterrorism measures; in fact, acts of terror …
… marked since the end of the Cold War, with terrorism becoming a major means of waging …
… the Philippines, are tightening their counter-terrorism measures, it is important to exclude … was included under sec. 13 of the new Anti-Terrorism Act (RA 11479). The ICRC is hopeful …
"We don't have a lack of disasters in Africa." That was one observation made at the 4th Annual meeting of the Africa Society of Forensic Medicine, held in Nairobi, Kenya in March. That in part …
… to stress the negative impact of counter-terrorism measures and sanctions that can … humanitarian exemptions to counter-terrorism measures and sanctions. If …
… and of human rights law, including acts of terrorism and sexual and gender-based …
… to have armed forces engaged in fighting terrorism and in situations of internal unrest … in the context of armed conflict, under terrorism legislation or common law issues go … such limits, or going beyond, in their anti-terrorism operations, in torturing and …
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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.
