… and precautionary measures put in place. The International Centre of Humanitarian Forensics (ICHF) in India – a … Advance Studies in International Humanitarian Law (CASH), Rajiv Gandhi National University …
… COVID-19 related challenges for ICRC and the humanitarian sector. Amid public health … issues, and promote the implementation of international humanitarian law (IHL) throughout the continent while …
… 10-10-2020 Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) welcomes the agreement on the humanitarian ceasefire of the escalating … Under international humanitarian law, the law that governs armed conflict, …
… 2020. The workshop, organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) together with Humanitarian Forum Indonesia (HFI) and Human … perform traditional funeral rites and that by law medical workers have a duty to report …
… socio-economic effects has not only worsened humanitarian situation in many contexts but … problems and the consequences suffered when international law, including international humanitarian law …
… areas. As winter fast approaches, the humanitarian situation could worsen rapidly. … indiscriminate shelling and other alleged unlawful attacks using explosive weaponry, in … limit the risk of civilian harm may violate international humanitarian law. People we've …
… of its ongoing IHL online course for senior humanitarian practitioners and policy-makers … 4: IHL and non-state armed groups, ICRC (International Humanitarian Law and The Challenges of Contemporary Armed …
… The International Committee of the Red Cross, … COVID - 19: Pandemics and International Humanitarian Law”. After reviewing 40 research papers from …
… Statement to Virtual Briefing on the Humanitarian Situation in the Central African … and have triggered the application of international humanitarian law. Confrontations between armed groups and …
… is taking a deadly toll on civilians, the International Committee of the Red Cross said … indiscriminate shelling and other alleged unlawful attacks using explosive weaponry in … These are obligations under international humanitarian law,” Schüepp continued. Fighting …
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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.
