… The situation is all the more worrying as humanitarian organisations including the ICRC … area, the ICRC has temporarily withdrawn its international staff members from the town of … The ICRC works to promote respect of the laws of war through its dialogue with the …
… multiple attempts in recent weeks to gain humanitarian access to Eastern Ghouta, the … people are facing. Repeated and continuous humanitarian access is essential and more must … called for all sides in Syria to respect the laws of war, which are being ignored. Today, …
… on Cluster Munitions Ratification kit International Committee of the Red Cross 19 … framework for addressing the long-standing humanitarian issues associated with these … (see Article 18, Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, 1969). Signing the Convention …
… work carried out by human rights and humanitarian actors in armed conflict and … (UN, NGOs, and components of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent … and concurrent growth in data-protection law, comprehensive guidelines on protection …
… and Penology (BJMP), with the support of the International Committee of the Red Cross … stakeholders such as public attorneys, law enforcement, court staff and judges, among … ICRC, a neutral, impartial and independent humanitarian organization, has been visiting …
… disasters and other emergencies. Humanity The International Red Cross and Red Crescent … National Societies, while auxiliaries in the humanitarian services of their governments and subject to the laws of their respective countries, must …
… missing persons in Brasilia. On 16 May, the International Committee of the Red Cross … programmes run by the ICRC to respond to the humanitarian consequences of this violence. As … Uruguay, pointed out that under international law, states have an obligation to prevent …
… ACTIVITIES: JULY-SEPTEMBER 2014 Promotion of international humanitarian law (IHL) • jointly organized the Teacher …
… path to recovery. We also explore some of the humanitarian principles and provisions of international law that relate specifically to children. …
… ADVISORY SERVICE ON INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW ____________________________________ … elements to be considered when preparing such laws. A number of States from both civil and …
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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.
