… The 32nd International Conference, held in Geneva from … an effort to find a common vision for future humanitarian action. Below are the outcomes of … 1: Strengthening international humanitarian law protecting persons deprived of their …
… to give effect to Resolution 1 of the 33rd International Conference of the Red Cross and … for national implementation of international humanitarian law”. In this fifth edition of the Universal …
… and to critically examine the design of the humanitarian response to those displaced in … Displacement in times of armed conflict: How international humanitarian law protects in war, and why it matters …
… the efforts made to prevent violations of the law in armed conflict. The event was part of … . It featured content from an issue of the International Review of the Red Cross on … picture of the evolution of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) in the past decades, …
… the idea of establishing a permanent international criminal court at various times … to punish serious violations of international humanitarian law committed, respectively, in the former …
… Despite widespread international attention and condemnation, … International Security and International Law programmes, the panel will explore the role of international humanitarian law (IHL) in banning and …
… brochure intended for audiences involved in law-enforcement functions summarizes the main … the principles and rules of human rights and humanitarian law relevant to professional law enforcement …
… to explore localization in contemporary humanitarian action - a major policy … together lessons learned on how national and international components of the Movement work … Societies IHL International Humanitarian Law NGO Non-governmental organisation NSAG …
… covers the reasons for war. Human rights law and refugee law can overlap with IHL. IHL and other legal regimes International humanitarian law and other legal regimes are …
… its mandate and sphere of competence. At the international level, significant progress has … committed to active cooperation with relevant humanitarian actors, giving priority to those … compliance with international humanitarian law, including the rules designed to prevent …
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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.
