BBC: The civilian hospital on Mosul's front line
BBC recently visited the Al-Shikhan hospital, once a daily health-care provider now a medical facility on the frontline. Watch the video on the BBC website: …
BBC recently visited the Al-Shikhan hospital, once a daily health-care provider now a medical facility on the frontline. Watch the video on the BBC website: …
As global levels of forced displacement reach a record high, a two-day conference in London asked how lessons from the past can help find solutions to the present crisis. An estimated 65 million …
Journalists from across East Asia discussed challenges to responsible and humanitarian journalism in the age of new media during a two-day meeting in Dhaka. The October event was organized by the …
United Nations General Assembly, 71st session, Sixth Committee, Report of the International Law Commission on the Work of Its sixty-eighth session (A/71/100), October – November 2016. Statements by …
16-11-2016 A seminar that aims to highlight the common ground between international humanitarian law (IHL) and its equivalent in Islamic tradition and jurisprudence is being held today at the …
Have patience my daughter. We will be together again one day. With these words, Sa'adeya comforted her daughter Iqra'a when she spoke to her by telephone for the first time since losing contact with …
Pierre Dorbes, head of delegation of the ICRC Regional Delegation of East Asia, talks about his work in Rwanda in …
18-11-2016 Beijing - The tenth edition of the international humanitarian law (IHL) moot competition- an inter-university competition on IHL -opens today in China University of Political Science and …
18-11-2016 Jerusalem (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is concerned about the deteriorating health of Anas Shadid and Ahmad Abu Farra, who have been hospitalized in Israel. …
With maritime and territorial disputes a feature of the Asia-Pacific region, the law of naval warfare is of particular relevance in this part of the world. A recent workshop in Surabaya, Indonesia, …
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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.