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… This August, the International Committee of the Red Cross … War II, state authorities, armed forces, and humanitarian actors have struggled to cope … in today's urban wars and demonstrate why the law of war matters. These objects are real – …
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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.
