… Cycle on "Generating respect for the law" , the panel accompanied the first meeting … and approaches. Background In 2004, the International Committee of the Red Cross … at strengthening respect for international humanitarian law (IHL) among soldiers and …
… International Humanitarian Law... in three hours. An impossible feat, … to the audience and their work. What is International Humanitarian Law? Rules of War. …
… Additional Protocols are the backbone of international humanitarian law. © ICRC library / hist-00553-19 1949: …
… International humanitarian law (IHL) is a set of rules that, in times of … appropriate assistance. In addition to IHL, international human rights law (IHRL) – …
… participating in the recently concluded Young Humanitarian Journalists Competition 2021 . Of … Nuclear Weapons: Justified or Past Time". The law student from Kuala Lumpur lamented the … magnitude. She explained that having studied international humanitarian law (IHL), the …
… they need guidance on how to comply with international humanitarian law or how to deal with casualties in need of …
… Level Event to Commemorate and Promote the International Day of Multilateralism and … for Peace. As the guardian of international humanitarian law (IHL), a neutral, impartial and …
… National IHL Committee (NIHLC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross … Asia. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs of … regarding implementation of IHL and other humanitarian norms, shared updates, …
… part of its operations worldwide, the International Committee of the Red Cross … to deepen their knowledge of international humanitarian law (IHL). Besides the RBAF officers, military …
… of Gilles Carbonnier, Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross … and survivors to discuss this pressing humanitarian issue. Urban warfare rarely makes … are used in population centres, even against lawful targets, there is a high probability …
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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.
