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… Zimbabwe at the top African competition for law students on international humanitarian law (IHL) in the final round of …
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… to discuss the implementation of the law in peace operations opens today in Shanghai, China. Co-organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross … Competition, and the China International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Summer Course for …
… General debate on all disarmament and international security agenda items. Statement … (ICRC) and our expertise in international humanitarian law (IHL) to bear on some of the critical …
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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.
