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Toxic chemicals as weapons for law enforcement: a threat to life and international law?
During the past ten years there has been much discussion and analysis of so called "incapacitating chemical agents" and of the use of these toxic chemicals as weapons for law enforcement. The ICRC …
Strengthening compliance with IHL: Initial informal Meeting of States, July 2012
Informal Meeting on Strengthening Compliance with International Humanitarian Law, Geneva, 13 July 2012 Concluding remarks Purpose of the meeting Today’s meeting has allowed us to appraise the …
Contemporary challenges to IHL – Occupation: overview
Under IHL, there is occupation when a State exercises an unconsented-to effective control over a territory on which it has no sovereign title. Article 42 of The Hague Regulations of 1907 defines …
Interview: How does law protect in war? A new edition of the ICRC's casebook
As part of its mandate to promote and strengthen the teaching and understanding of international humanitarian law (IHL), the ICRC has published a third, expanded and updated edition of its IHL …
How does law protect in war?
Cases, documents and teaching materials on contemporary practice in international humanitarian law. A selection of nearly three hundred case studies provides university professors, practitioners 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.
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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.
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Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.