… selected as the winners of the 2015 Young Humanitarian Writers Competition, organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross … Movement and international humanitarian law. In keeping with the spirit of the …
… The use of the emblems: clearly defined in law The protective and the indicative use of … and buildings of the armed forces under international law. That protection extends to certain humanitarian organizations working alongside …
… Kuwait (ICRC) – Today the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross … the Supervisor-General of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid & Relief Centre, the … also stressed that international humanitarian law applies to the conflict in Yemen and that …
… 2015, Geneva. Statement by the ICRC. The International Committee of the Red Cross … of its assessment that there is a lack of international capacity specifically to assist … use of biological weapons must place humanitarian needs first, including by …
… result of a blatant lack of compliance with international humanitarian law by both State and non-State parties to …
… to address various controversial topics of international humanitarian law and answer the numerous and sometimes …
… Geneva Centre for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action (CERAH) convened a … to feature the recent publication of the International Review of the Red Cross on " … Cycle on " Generating respect for the law ", an ongoing reflection on how to better …
… it? What leads a combatant to comply with the law or not? Ten years after the publication of … to specific interpretations of Islamic law. 1 Data collection is expected to be … policies and practices of the ICRC and other humanitarian organizations when they seek to …
… civilians is not only a violation of international humanitarian law, it negates the most basic principles of …
… disappeared during the armed conflict. Under international humanitarian law, the parties to a conflict must do all …
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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.
