The ICRC takes the issue of misinformation, disinformation, and hate speech (MDH) during armed conflict seriously and is dedicated to finding effective ways to address this problem and its …
16-02-2023 Geneva (ICRC) –The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on 17 February marks its 160th year of work to bring relief to millions of people adversely affected by armed conflict. …
… IHL issues in 2022 including IHL & counter-terrorism, non-state armed groups, new …
… - national legislative frameworks on counter-terrorism. These topics were selected in light …
… exemption particularly linked to counter-terrorism-related UN sanctions (the “1267” …
… an immediate policy objective. The counterterrorism narrative of recent decades has been …
… Similarly, the rise in violent extremism and terrorism as well as the proliferation of …
The armed conflict in Mali is brutal for those living there, with families sometimes having just minutes to flee the fighting, their stomachs knotted with fear. Safia,* who is from Gao, was separated …
… challenges and issues. IHL and Counter-Terrorism Operations Climate Change and armed …
… on Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism. [Mr, Madame] Chair, Terrorism not only violates international … , it negates the basic principle of humanity. Terrorism can have devastating impacts on …
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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.
