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Syria: Aid delivery across front lines in Homs

… it has been pressing ahead with talks on humanitarian issues. The armed conflict in … on all parties to meet their obligation under international humanitarian law to protect and spare civilians at all …

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Legal Measures and Mechanisms to Prevent Disappearances, to Establish the Fate of Missing Persons, and to Assist their Families

… Universal Meeting of National Committees on International Humanitarian Law, March 19-21 2007. The issue of missing …

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DRC: Millions displaced and at risk from stark rise in violence

… alarming levels of human suffering. The International Committee of the Red Cross … – more than in Syria or Iraq. As part of its humanitarian operations, the ICRC, in … educated about international humanitarian law (IHL), an effort in part to reduce attacks …

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Respect for ethics is central to protecting health care

… Between January 2012 and December 2014, the International Committee of the Red Cross … to ask ourselves that question. International humanitarian law (IHL) states that medical personnel, …

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Policy Assistant - NATO

… as per Belgian legislation 38 hours/week International law and policy The International Committee of … is a neutral, impartial and independent humanitarian organisation that works to …

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Health care in South Sudan: Beating the odds

… both sides of the conflict were trained in international humanitarian law (IHL).   For more information, read the …

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Ethics and autonomous weapon systems: An ethical basis for human control?

… systems: An ethical basis for human control? International Committee of the Red Cross … force to ensure compliance with international law and to satisfy ethical concerns, and … cause unacceptable harm. In international humanitarian law, notions of humanity and …

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China: Conference Marks the 40th Anniversary of 1977 Additional Protocols to Geneva Conventions

… The International Committee of the Red Cross … with the Institute of International Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences … Chinese National Committee for International Humanitarian Law (NCIHL), think tanks, …

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Migrants: Vulnerabilities & Protection

… 12.2017 Conference jointly organised by the International Committee of the Red Cross and … 8 Dr Helen Durham | Director of International Law and Policy International Committee of the … for Refugees Hugo Slim | Head of Policy and Humanitarian Diplomacy International Committee …

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Belgium: past and future of the Bruges colloquium on IHL.

… Since 1999, the Bruges Colloquium on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) is the annual rendez-vous of IHL …

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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.

IHL treaties

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 IHL

Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.