… 21-10-2014 Port Moresby (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross … parties to the conflict under international humanitarian law to clarify the fate and whereabouts of …
… 2014. In light of the forthcoming 32nd International Conference of the Red Cross and … enhancing the effectiveness of international humanitarian law (IHL) compliance mechanisms, and to work …
… conflict. They may be victims, combatants, humanitarian workers, bystanders or actors of … violence. Sexual violence is a violation of international humanitarian law. It is not inevitable and it can be …
… especially children. Boys and girls who are unlawfully recruited, used in hostilities or … by human rights law at all times, and by international humanitarian law (IHL) during both …
… 16-10-2014 Geneva/Damascus (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross … of their obligation under international humanitarian law to protect and spare civilians at all …
… 15-10-2014 Colombo (ICRC) – On 16 October, the International Committee of the Red Cross … (ICRC) will mark the 25th anniversary of its humanitarian activities in Sri Lanka. "During … it promotes international humanitarian law among armed forces personnel, government …
… the applicable legal norms for detention in international and non-international armed … by the Flanders Fields Conference of Military Law and the Law of War , which will be held in … organized a colloquium on international humanitarian law every year since 2000 as part …
… by the ICRC, New York, 15 October 2014. The International Committee of the Red Cross … in the effective enforcement of International Humanitarian Law (IHL). States bear the primary …
… General debate on all disarmament and international security agenda items. United … York, 14 October 2014. In the course of its humanitarian work in countless armed conflicts … violations of international humanitarian law, endangered humanitarian assistance and …
… First Committee in New York this week, the International Committee of the Red Cross … can be limited as required by international humanitarian law,” he added. “This is not about the weapons …
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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.
