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… 30-08-2018 Tel Aviv/ Gaza - On the International Day of Disappeared, the … duty and legal obligation under International Humanitarian Law to clarify the fate of the missing people. …
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… Since 2001, the International Committee of the Red Cross and … on implementation of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) in ECOWAS Member States. While …
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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.
