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… of victims of war, and to promote respect for international humanitarian law. Facts and figures 31.3 million people …
… Humanitarian challenges in 2018 In 2018, … did not join the peace process – to observe international humanitarian law and other humanitarian rules and keep the …
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… was instrumental in his becoming a teacher of international humanitarian law. Barrister Okanga. Okanga remembers one …
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… In the second quarter of 2022, the International Committee of the Red Cross … of the Red Cross (ICRC) is continuing its humanitarian work in Venezuela, relieving the … in a seminar on international humanitarian law and other international and national …
… meets Australian Red Cross’ new Director of International Humanitarian Law and Movement Relations, Dr Phoebe …
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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.
