Jordan: Launch of the Professional Standards for Protection Work
… and the potential implications of the counter-terrorism legislation on the activities of …
… and the potential implications of the counter-terrorism legislation on the activities of …
Stories of when international humanitarian law (IHL) works rarely make the news. We don't see the stories of the pilots who decided not to drop a bomb after assessing that too many people would be …
… issues of our time: migration and terrorism. Global migration has reached … role to play in the quest to reduce acts of terrorism and other forms of extreme violence. …
… dares to interfere with our fight against terrorism, we will return fire in the name of … will be carried out to fight against terrorism and protect the territorial … Fodavan military however, amounts to a war on terrorism. Ergo, the jurisdiction of Article …
… for approximately 50 per cent of all acts of terrorism in Europe, according to the 2015 European Union Terrorism Situation and Trend Report. …
… the ICRC's support, the DMP's Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit chief …
… and of human rights law, including acts of terrorism and sexual and gender-based …
18-02-2004 Geneva (ICRC) - The ICRC is increasingly concerned about the humanitarian impact of the West Bank Barrier on many Palestinians living in occupied territory. Where it deviates from the …
… 62 Part 3: A topic-based approach 65 IHL and terrorism 66 Rape and other forms of sexual … today’s armed conflicts, ranging from acts of terrorism to sexual violence and from the use … availability of weapons, the spread of terrorism, and the growing number of …
… ambulances) were damaged. The South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP), an independent site, … and 2014 some 40 doctors were killed due to terrorism.(5) This number is an … of doctors (1000 – 1500/year) due to terrorism and the search for better quality of …
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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.