Assessing national measures to implement international humanitarian law allows the authorities to verify which measures have already been taken and which remain to be taken in order to honour the …
Opinion paper - definition of "international armed conflict" and "non-international armed conflict" under International Humanitarian Law, the branch of international law which governs armed conflict. …
06-11-2007 Teams representing eight universities from Mainland China participated in a two-day moot court competition on 3-4 November at Renmin University in Beijing. This first ever national round …
Statement Document adopted by the ICRC Assembly on 27 April 2006. The genocide of the Jews and Gypsies and other persecutions carried out under the Third Reich were the cause of unspeakable …
15-10-2007 The Chinese version of a world-wide study conducted by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) of the practices on states in times of armed conflict was launched in Beijing on …
21-06-2007 On 18-19 June 2007 a regional meeting entitled "Symposium for the 30th Anniversary of the Adoption of the 1977 Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August, 1949: …
Paris principles and guidelines on children associated with armed forces or armed groups and Paris commitments to protect children from unlawful recruitment or use by armed forces or armed groups. …
The red cross and the red crescent have been at the service of humanity for more than a century - affording protection to those affected by conflict and to those assisting them. In December 2005, an …
Model instrument of ratification / accession ADVISORY SERVICE ON INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW ____________________________________ Third Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 Model …
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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.
