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… CC BY-NC-ND / ICRC / Jesús Serrano Redondo International humanitarian law The ICRC gave presentations to 1,000 …
… On 29 September the International Committee of the Red Cross … to explore the relevance of international humanitarian law in modern humanitarian contexts. This …
… women and girls are at the forefront of the international agenda. However, the reality on … of the Red Cross (ICRC) recognizes the acute humanitarian consequences of armed conflict on … protection under international humanitarian law (IHL). From the ICRC's experience in the …
… on the impact of these new technologies on humanitarian law and policy, the ICRC hosted a Research and …
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… of Fundamental Principles , the ICRC, the International Federation of Red Cross Red … and implementation of the principles guiding humanitarian action. Since they have been … the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, and Appeals Judge and former President of …
… 07-10-2015 Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross … for the activation of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission, a body, … facility, which should be protected under the laws of armed conflict, that would be a …
… 05-10-2015 Juba, 5 October 2015 - The International Committee of the Red Cross … been forced to withdraw all its staff from a humanitarian compound in Leer County, Unity … property. Under international humanitarian law, civilians and wounded must be spared and …
… Syria and Yemen. It warns that unless humanitarian agencies adopt a different … better approach to assisting affected people, International Committee of the Red Cross, … SERVICES UNDER IHL AND OTHER BODIES OF LAW..... 53 …
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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.
