… 4 When the violence broke out, we lost our jobs, we lost everything. Now I have to borrow … for people to rebuild their lives, hold down jobs or break out of cycles of violence. S. …
… Others have been forced to leave their jobs or flee, and many patients have been …
In October, 2016, Helen Durham, Director of International Law and Policy at the ICRC, talked about some most heated IHL issues when interviewed in Beijing. What does the IHL say about terrorism? …
… have any roads or aqueduct here, there are no jobs, there is no work. This all creates … safer place and, therefore, to abandon their jobs and their roots. As a result, these …
Forty-one serving military officers from five continents gathered in New Delhi to participate in a Regional Workshop on Integrated Protection of Civilians (PoC) held in December 2016. The workshop …
… of great need. Mohammed's father does odd jobs to support his family but often cannot …
… have any roads or aqueduct here, there are no jobs, there is no work. This all creates …
Explosive ordnance disposal (EOD), the procedure that renders explosive material safe, evokes images of wires, explosives, protective equipment and delicate procedures. Real-life training for such …
… but nothing worked. Now, I am relying on odd jobs. I have never experienced it before." Her …
… from far away. "There's no water. There's no jobs," said Zuhura Fumo, a 23-year-old mother …
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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.
