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Pakistan: 5th Bilingual Essay Writing Competition launched

… The International Committee of the Red Cross … by way of hundreds of entries on important humanitarian topics. Last year, over 600 … this year would also promote humanitarian law and principles, a discussion on the …

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The International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission – Factsheet

… I) provides for the establishment of an International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission. The … violations of international humanitarian law (IHL). As such, the Commission is an …

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Statute of the International Criminal Court

… the idea of establishing a permanent international criminal court at various times … to punish serious violations of international humanitarian law committed, respectively, in the former …

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Obligations in terms of penal repression - Factsheet

International humanitarian law (IHL) is the set of rules designed to … in this factsheet. . ADVISORY SERVICE ON INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW

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1972 Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons

… Destruction is one of the instruments of international law aimed at reducing the suffering caused by … independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives …

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My time as an intern at ICRC Pakistan

… Sitting through my first course of International Law during my bachelors, I remember thinking … that is committed to the mission of upholding humanitarian values. Therefore, when I saw the …

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International Day of the Disappeared: the ICRC calls for respect of the International Humanitarian Law

… 30-08-2018 Tel Aviv/ Gaza - On the International Day of Disappeared, the … duty and legal obligation under International Humanitarian Law to clarify the fate of the missing people. …

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Singapore: With a ‘smile’, Sandy Tan wins Youth Humanitarian Challenge

… young people to think and write about humanitarian concerns, the International Committee of the Red Cross … she should support international humanitarian law (IHL) and various humanitarian causes." CC …

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Nepal: Families have the right to know the fate of their missing loved ones

… NEFAD focus on Right to Know for this year's International Day of the Disappeared Kathmandu … ICRC is a neutral, impartial and independent humanitarian organisation whose exclusively … by promoting and strengthening humanitarian law and universal humanitarian principles. …

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Malaysia: 15th national IHL moot court competition

… partnered with local university to organise International Humanitarian Law moot court competition where students must …

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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.