Factsheet on the obligation to disseminate international humanitarian law. In particular, the following questions/topics are addressed: dissemination: a treaty-based obligations for the States; the …
Factsheet on the legal protection of children in armed conflict. In particular, the following questions/topics are addressed: general protection; special protection; participation in hostilities; …
ADVISORY SERVICE ON INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW ____________________________________ 1977 Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 - Ratification kit - SPECIMEN RATIFICATION / …
ADVISORY SERVICE ON INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW ____________________________________ Statute of the International Criminal Court - Ratification kit - Model of an instrument of ratification …
Text of Article 8 of the Statute of the International Criminal Court. ADVISORY SERVICE ON INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW ____________________________________ Statute of the International Criminal …
ADVISORY SERVICE ON INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW ____________________________________ 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its Protocols …
ADVISORY SERVICE ON INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW ____________________________________ The International Humanitarian Fact-finding Commission Model declaration of acceptance International …
Document suggesting model legislative provisions to be used by common law States as guidance in the drafting of legislation relating with the 1997 Anti-personnel Mine Ban Convention. ADVISORY SERVICE …
The Cairo Declaration on the Protection of Cultural Property was adopted by consensus at a regional conference convened from 14 to 16 February 2004 in order to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1954 …
18-02-2004 Geneva (ICRC) - The ICRC is increasingly concerned about the humanitarian impact of the West Bank Barrier on many Palestinians living in occupied territory. Where it deviates from the …
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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.
