Taking IHL as a starting point, this paper will identify commonalities between IHL and the CRPD and emphasize certain specific contributions of IHL to the protection of persons with disabilities in …
The team from Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) lifted the winner's trophy at the IHL Moot Court Competition recently organized by the ICRC in partnership with the International Islamic University …
By William Davies, Michika, Nigeria The only businesses open in the village of Gulak are a barber and a tailor. On the ground outside, two men sort through a pile of peanuts, two young girls walk …
States party to the 1949 Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I of 1977 have an obligation to take measures necessary to suppress all acts contrary to their provisions. Moreover, States must …
International humanitarian law (IHL) is a set of rules that, in times of armed conflict, seeks – for humanitarian reasons – to protect persons who are not, or are no longer directly participating in …
This exhibition drew on video and audio recordings from the ICRC's archives dating as far back as 1922 to show the staggering toll that wars have taken on cities and the people living in them. But it …
21-09-2017 (New York) – At a UN General Assembly High-Level event on Syria, ICRC President Peter Maurer urged for the protection of Syrian civilians trapped by violence and internally displaced by …
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 …
On 10 July, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi declared victory in Mosul, bringing about the end of a military operation that began in October 2016. While the fighting may be over, massive …
The Syrian war has entered its seventh year. It remains the largest and most complex humanitarian crisis in the world. People's needs on the ground are rising sharply throughout the country. …
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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.
