Guidelines for Investigating Deaths in Custody
These Guidelines, the first of their kind, provide guidance to detaining authorities, investigating authorities, humanitarian agencies and others on preventing deaths in custody. They reflect …
These Guidelines, the first of their kind, provide guidance to detaining authorities, investigating authorities, humanitarian agencies and others on preventing deaths in custody. They reflect …
Directed at commanders, staff officers and military doctrine writers, this practical guidance manual illustrates where and how the application of the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) should be integrated …
The IHL: Answers to your questions exhibition is made up of six lightweight and flexible panels, easy to assemble and to take down and pack up. The panels measure 80 cm by 230 cm. The complete set …
This set of six exhibition banners is part of the second stage of the Health Care in Danger project. The visuals transmit positive messages (the main protagonists survived due to measures that were …
This set of five exhibition banners were developed for the first phase of the HCID campaign focusing on raising awareness about the problem. The set is based on the main visuals and on the text of …
The International Committee of the Red Cross works around the world to help people who need it most. We are an independent, neutral organization ensuring humanitarian protection and assistance for …
This issue is a collection of articles taken from the International Review of the Red Cross on the theme of the future of humanitarian …
Cette Sélection rassemble un choix d'articles tirés de la Revue internationale de la Croix-Rouge sur le thème engager un dialogue avec les groupes armés et comprendre les groupes armés et le droit …
The Review has decided to contribute to the discussion on whether the rules of occupation should be strengthened, clarified, or developed, by devoting the present edition to the subject of the grey …
The ICRC might be required to undertake activities in locations where there is the potential for intentional or unintentional release of chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear (CBRN) agents. …
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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.