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EVENT: From IHL to Humanitarian Action: Exploring Pathways to Peace

International humanitarian law (IHL) aims to limit the effects of armed conflict for humanitarian reasons. It does so by placing limits on the means and methods of warfare, with a view to limiting …

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Master Data Officer

32/F BDO Life Megaplaza, 358 Sen. Gil Puyat Ave., Makati City, Philippines Open-ended Data management and analytics The Master Data Officer ensures that the master data is managed as per the global …

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EVENT: From Hackers to Tech Companies: IHL and the Involvement of Civilians in ICT Activities in Armed Conflict

Recent armed conflicts have seen civilians encouraged to collect militarily-relevant information through smart-phone; unprecedented numbers of civilian hacker groups (often referred to as …

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Water and Habitat Project Officer

17F NEX Tower 6786 Ayala Avenue, 1229 Makati City Open-ended Water and habitat The Project Officer is responsible for supporting activities relating to the Prisoners of Climate Change Multi-Year …

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Field Accountant

32/F BDO Life Megaplaza, 358 Sen. Gil Puyat Ave., Makati City, Philippines Open-ended Finance and administration The Field Accountant is responsible for the management of field accounts payable and …

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Vacancy: ICT Engineer - Colombia

Bogotá Open ended contract (according to Colombian labor legislation) Information and communication technology What we do The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) works worldwide to …

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Finance & Administration (FAD) Country Manager

Level 6, Pacific House, 1 Butt St, Suva, Fiji Open-ended Full-time Finance and administration The ICRC is a neutral, impartial and independent organisation with the exclusively humanitarian mission …

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Health Field Officer

17F NEX Tower 6786 Ayala Avenue, 1229 Makati City Open-ended Health assistance In the context of the ICRC’s evolving operational strategy and streamlining of assistance towards sustainable action …

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UN General Assembly 80th session: Statement to the First Committee

Delivered by Laurent Gisel, Head of Arms and Conduct of Hostilities. Mr. Chair, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, This First Committee takes place amid steadily increasing levels of armed conflict, …

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The Fundamental Principles: 60 Years of humanity in action

In times of war, disaster or displacement, people caught in crisis need one thing above all else: help they can trust and depend on. This is where the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) …

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The ICRC and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent assess the needs of people who gathered in collective shelters after fleeing fighting in the region of Aleppo, Syria (2016).

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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.

IHL treaties

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 IHL

Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.