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… victims of war, and to promote respect for international humanitarian law. Facts and figures 31.3 million people …
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… intermediary we addressed the pressing humanitarian needs occurred in relation to the … HIGHLIGHTS JANUARY-DECEMBER 2022 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) … of the international humanitarian law (IHL) and acting as a neutral intermediary …
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… given by Mirjana Spoljaric, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, in Amman. Call for action: urgent humanitarian response in Gaza Excellencies, … that support them, must ensure that the law is interpreted and applied in a way that …
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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.
