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Uganda / DRC: Ten children to be reunited with their families in DRC

… also promotes the teaching and learning of International Humanitarian Law and basic Humanitarian principles among the …

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Nuclear weapons pose an existential threat to humanity

… Joint Statement of the International Committee of the Red Cross and … some eighty years ago is proof that no humanitarian response can adequately address …   For one, international humanitarian law fully applies to the use of nuclear …

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Practical advice for the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict - Guidelines

… give an overview of the instruments of international humanitarian law which protect cultural property and expose …

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Contemporary challenges to IHL – Occupation: overview

… and can be exercised." Occupation law - as a branch of IHL - regulates the … to take place as well as allowing impartial humanitarian organizations such as the ICRC to … of occupation were in the interest of the international community and should be …

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Failure to manage arms trade responsibly is putting a dirt cheap price on the lives of civilians

… to flow despite repeated violations of international humanitarian law. Public services have been bombed, the …

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The Missing: The wound that never heals

… – Friday, 30 August 2024, will mark the International Day of the Disappeared. Every … their commitments, uphold international humanitarian law, and to increase their efforts in solving …

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Sudan: Facts & Figures April to August 2023

… (SRCS), includes promoting respect for international humanitarian law (IHL), supporting hospitals and health …

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Decision-Making Process in Military Combat Operations

… where and how the application of the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) should be … necessary conditions for the respect of the law in the conduct of military combat …

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Nigeria: Facts and figures from January to June 2021

… the United Nations Refugee Agency. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) … of the country. "The challenges of meeting humanitarian need in the face of a global … RESPECT FOR INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW (IHL) PROTECTION OF THE RED CROSS EMBLEM: …

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Syria: In societies shattered by conflict, civilians pay a high price for years

… from Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross … are fought in violation of international humanitarian law. And then there are those displaced, people …

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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.

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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.

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