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… Report drawn up by the Advisory Service on international humanitarian law of the … in particular on the quality and scope of the health and medical system in the country in … objectives — more clearly defined and more carefully selected — were to be made the …
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… Document suggesting model legislative provisions to be used by … everywhere as a person before the law. § Care should be taken in the elaboration of any … examination and shall receive adequate health care, as the case may be. Such …
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… Cases, documents and teaching materials on contemporary practice in … International Humanitarian Law presents IHL carefully and systematically. The important … to participate, i.e. during the conflict for health reasons and of course as soon as active …
… During the past ten years there has been much … situations to provide the immediate medical care that might be characterised as adequate … to limit the risk of death and other adverse health effects. The dose of a chemical used is …
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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.
