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… contamination to respond to the evolving humanitarian needs. We provided hospitals with … Serobyan/ICRC FACTS & FIGURES ARMENIA The International Committee of the Red Cross … of the international humanitarian law (IHL) and act as a neutral intermediary …
… director for the Near and Middle East for the International Committee of the Red Cross, on … the headlines as often as in the past, the humanitarian consequences of years of conflict … best interest and is what international law requires unless otherwise justified by a …
… ICRC's Global Adviser on Migration to the International Migration Review Forum. Thank … address this tragedy, provide for migrants' humanitarian needs and uphold their rights, … a close look at the impact of migration laws, policies and practices and ensuring they …
… violence. Violence also considerably limited humanitarian access . In short, impoverished … volumes of greenhouse gases into the air. 6. International humanitarian law (IHL) provides protection to the natural …
… the prohibition. As the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, … come to life as a new norm of international humanitarian law. The Treaty’s success depends on the …
… November 2018, the Lebanese Parliament passed Law 105, the Law on the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared, a … non-discriminatory National Commission with a humanitarian mandate to clarify the fate and …
… Mauritius has displayed its support for international humanitarian law (IHL) by ratifying this IHL instrument. …
… given by Mirjana Spoljaric, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, in Amman. Call for action: urgent humanitarian response in Gaza Excellencies, … those that support them, must ensure that the law is interpreted and applied in a way that …
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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.
