… in the more than sixty years since the International Committee of the Red Cross … published its Commentaries on these important humanitarian treaties. To promote a better … of, and respect for, this body of law, the ICRC commissioned a comprehensive …
… opportunity to reaffirm the crucial role of international humanitarian law (IHL) in preventing and mitigating the …
… 2017 Protecting vulnerable people The International Committee of the Red Cross … Bougainville Crisis As per the international humanitarian law, families have the right to know what …
… Additional Protocols today and discuss their humanitarian impact on the lives of people … witnessed an increase in the number of non-international armed conflicts and wars of … the rules of international humanitarian law (IHL). They strengthened the protection of …
… 30-08-2024 Baghdad, ICRC: On the International Day of the Disappeared the … (ICRC) reaffirms the value of international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law …
… child protection. Armed groups are bound by international humanitarian law (IHL), but they cannot sign and ratify …
… broaden the knowledge of participants on the law and the obligation of military forces wen … armed forces and other entities on IHL? The International Committee of the Red Cross … Conventions (also known as International Humanitarian Law-IHL- or the Laws of Armed …
… 13-11-2017 Law students compete in the second national … law governing armed conflict, known as the International Humanitarian Law (IHL). The competition will …
… its first meeting First-time mooters take on international humanitarian law Facts and figures Tuan Zaharan/ICRC …
… five year conflict in South Sudan left many humanitarian consequences that will last. The … on IHRL to promote knowledge and respect for international humanitarian law and international human rights law. …
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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.
