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Colombia: Five armed conflicts – What’s happening?

… intensity, and could eventually form new non-international armed conflicts. At the same … are governed primarily by international humanitarian law (IHL), with all that this implies – …

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Toolkit helps companies facing security and human rights challenges

… respecting human rights and complying with international humanitarian law. The project is based on a survey of …

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Venezuela: strengthening the resilience of vulnerable communities and structures

… The ICRC provides humanitarian protection and assistance to … national police, the ombudsman’s office 369 law enforcement officials 13,600 personal … OF VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES AND FACILITIES The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) …

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Health Care in Danger: Community of concern

… Conventions of 1949 are the cornerstone of international humanitarian law, which seeks to limit the effects of war; …

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Montreux Document: Regional Conference on Private Military and Security Companies in Addis Ababa

… discuss the Montreux Document on pertinent international legal obligations and good … obligations of States under international law and lists good practices aimed to assist … in promoting respect for international humanitarian law and human rights law and to …

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Monthly Middle East and North Africa newsletter – May 2020: Our response to COVID-19

… and the Iraqi Red Crescent Society HUMANITARIAN WORK GOES ON The ICRC is … promoting the same values that underpin international humanitarian law. ‫ قوانين الحرب في السيرة الشعبية‬:‫أخالق …

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Gone but not forgotten: Migrants, mothers and the missing

… On 30 August 2017, on the International Day of the Disappeared, the ICRC … Cycle on Generating respect for the law , which aims at addressing the importance of international humanitarian law (IHL) and prevention efforts. …

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Myanmar: Our impact on the ground - January to June 2024

… has led to further deterioration of the humanitarian crisis, resulting in a lack of … has also created steeper challenges for humanitarian responders. Nevertheless, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) …

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Myanmar Operational Facts Figures Jan-June 2024

What treaties make up IHL? What is customary IHL?

… Extract from ICRC publication "International humanitarian law: answers to your questions" Contemporary …

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Newsletter - December 2020: there is no health without mental health

… Robert Mardini, ICRC’s director-general The International Red Cross and Red Crescent … anxiety. Our call for participation in the humanitarian reporting competition in the … years after the Lebanese parliament approved Law 105 on the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared …

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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.