… the international school for counter-terrorism and the ICRC briefed over 100 … 17 countries, on the applicability of IHL to “terrorism”. The ICRC provided National … individually: people held on charges of “terrorism”, or in connection with the conflict …
… process to adopt the 12 UN Conventions on terrorism." International Committee of the Red … 24 June 2002 • Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism Act 2002 "The Act is not specific to …
… overlaps and contradictions between IHL and terrorism in domestic law and the impact that … and at the specialized judicial centre for terrorism and transnational organized crime. …
The civilian population continues to bear the brunt of the war. We wish that the figures we report here for humanitarian consequences belonged to the distant past. However, these figures reflect the …
The United Nations' Inter-Agency Standing Committee, a coordination group for humanitarian agencies, has produced a basic fact-file on legal aspects of aid work during conflicts. Two dozen concise …
… or the development of measures to counteract terrorism. •• Follow, monitor and report A … at global level (e.g. new laws on countering terrorism) are duly taken into consideration …
By knowing and referencing IHL, journalists not only enhance their reporting and foster better safety for themselves on the ground, but they also promote a better understanding of armed conflict …
… time and in any place whatsoever:] Acts of terrorism 17 Art. 4 (2) (d) of AP II See also …
… and when water is used for psychological terrorism, extorsion or for incentivizing …
… thought to be engaged in acts associated with terrorism • Health-care personnel …
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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.
