How does the ICRC work in detention?
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ICRC vice-president: "States must follow letter and spirit of IHL"
… set out under Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, and which the ICRC is expected to …
Request for Tender - RFT/ICRC/IOM/GVA22/00141 - 3-year Frame Agreement - Collapsible Jerrycans 10L & 20L
… external lab: September 30th, 2022 at 18:00 (Geneva time) The closing date for commercial … results: November 11th, 2022 at 12:00 (Geneva time) Should you have any questions …
ICRC archives to be opened, 1966-1975
… Croissant-Rouge Circulaires aux gouvernements Conventions de Genève et leur interprétation; … 022-253 ''The Course of Five Lessons on the Geneva Conventions'' de Henri Coursier … Ouvrage du professeur Umozurike : ''The Geneva Convention and Africa'' …
Humanitarian needs are enormous around the world, but together we can address them.
… this mandate on the ICRC in the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their 1977 Additional …
Counterterrorism, IHL and Humanitarian Action
… Protocol 1, Article 51(2); see also Geneva Convention IV, Article 33(1) and … the Senior Humanitarian Policy adviser at NRC Geneva, specializing in the impact of … action. Prior to joining the NRC in Geneva in 2015, she spent eight years managing …
DR Congo: The ICRC suspends food aid for displaced people in Kanyabayonga
… humanitarian mandate that stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. It helps people around …
Humanitarian access: What the law says
… is even clearer, the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention foreseeing that an Occupying …
Why the ICRC talks to armed groups
… to the ICRC by all state signatories to the Geneva Conventions , and we frequently acknowledge …
Ensuring the use of drones in accordance with international law
… accountability for grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I in …
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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.