The ICRC’s global engagement with the Judicial Sector on international humanitarian law
… Conventions to respect and ensure respect for international humanitarian law (IHL) by providing States with technical …
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Webinar: Contemporary challenges to International Humanitarian Law and the Role of the Diplomat
… delegation together with the Bandaranaike International Diplomatic Training Institute of … on Contemporary challenges to International Humanitarian Law. The first of the webinar series will …
President Peter Maurer UNGA 2021: International Humanitarian Law - Enhancing Monitoring, Improving Compliance
… given by Mr Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross … when wars are fought in violation of the law, without mercy or humanity, the humanitarian impacts are enormous. Not …
Bringing IHL home: Guidelines on the national implementation of international humanitarian law
… In December 2019, the 33rd International Conference of the Red Cross and … national implementation of international humanitarian law. The resolution is based on the widely …
Malaysia opens first-ever regional centre for military and international humanitarian law
… first-ever regional centre for Military and International Humanitarian Law. Hosted on the campus of the National …
Prof. Hitoshi Nasu on the application of international humanitarian law to nanotechnologies
… uses? How are they going to influence international humanitarian law? Should we restrict military use? Listen …
ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric: "When international humanitarian law is respected, lives are saved"
… to mark the 160th founding anniversary of the International Committee of the Red Cross and … too well the suffering that results and how humanitarian action can be a vital lifeline. … and violation of international humanitarian law, the pursuit of development and peace …
Armenia/Azerbaijan: ICRC urges that the rules of international humanitarian law be respected
… 13-09-2022 Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross … along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and its humanitarian consequences since 13 September … that the rules of international humanitarian law are respected. This is an obligation of …
Al-Azhar University, ICRC discuss commonalities between international humanitarian law and Islamic Sharia
… (Cairo - ICRC) The International Committee of the Red Cross … on the “Principles of the International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and Commonalities with the …
Webinar: International humanitarian law and protection of the natural environment: A preventive response
… of prevention among a range of stakeholders. International Humanitarian Law (IHL) contains specific and general …
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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.
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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.
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Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.