Hostilities between Gaza and Israel must stop and much-needed humanitarian activities must start now. The populations in Gaza and Israel are facing the most intense cycle of hostilities in years and …
Thirty-nine-year-old Afghan construction worker Nick Mohammad (a resident of Faizabad in Badakhshan province), who spent a part of his life as a migrant worker in Iran, returned to Afghanistan seven …
The Convention on Cluster Munitions is a response to the suffering caused by cluster munitions, which have killed and injured many thousands of civilians in countries where they have been used. In …
The Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols of 1977 are the principal treaties governing aid to and protection of the victims of armed conflict. In order to secure the guarantees …
The Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects applies two general …
In order to ensure respect for international humanitarian law (IHL), States must establish mechanisms to punish violations of that law. The repression of violations of IHL often requires the …
Fact sheet describing the objective and content of the ICRC database on national measures to implement international humanitarian law. Database -implementation of IHL ADVISORY SERVICE ON IHL ICRC …
The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction (the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, or APMBC) is part of the …
International humanitarian law (IHL) – also called the “law of war” or the “law of armed conflict” – sets out detailed rules that seek for humanitarian reasons to limit the effects of armed conflict. …
International criminal law is the body of law that prohibits certain categories of conduct deemed to be serious crimes, regulates procedures governing investigation, prosecution and punishment 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.
