… management of human remains Promoting humanitarian values • • Continued to engage … academic, media and other actors to promote international humanitarian law Engaged with the government of Syria to …
… process cannot start nor be completed. Under international humanitarian law, the families have the right to know the …
… 6: The protection afforded by existing law, and possible avenues to reduce the human … OPERATIONS Foreword One of the main aims of international humanitarian law (IHL) is to protect the …
… people, promoting and strengthening international humanitarian law, and reconnecting families. Table of …
… local partnerships and those across the humanitarian, development and private sectors … and Cooperation (SDC), the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency … legal advice from OBERSON ABELS SA, a Swiss law firm which supports the organization on a …
… drafted by the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross … care, which is protected under international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human …
… half (55%) of the population is in need of humanitarian assistance, with economic … deepening an already dire situation. The International Committee of the Red Cross … session was conducted for 25 members of Herat law enforcement department A round-table …
… Destruction is one of the instruments of international law aimed at reducing the suffering caused by … independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives …
… finds itself in an ambivalent position. Its humanitarian work during the conflict – in … of prisoners of war earned the organization international recognition in the form of a … term. In response to the gaps in humanitarian law, principally concerning the victims of …
… living conditions. With our partners in the International Red Cross and Red Crescent … by promoting respect for international humanitarian law and other applicable norms, spreading …
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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.
