… it has been pressing ahead with talks on humanitarian issues. The armed conflict in … on all parties to meet their obligation under international humanitarian law to protect and spare civilians at all …
… 2.5.2. Components of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent … Strengthening Compliance with International Humanitarian Law (IHL), held in Geneva on 30 June – 1 July …
… Conventions of 1949 are the cornerstone of international humanitarian law, which seeks to limit the effects of war; …
… be found every- officials, representatives of international where, not only in … The International Red Cross and Red Crescent humanitarian actors, we must make Movement, … a general tendency among people to take the law into their own hands, and health-care …
… South Sudan Red Cross (SSRC), the ICRC, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red … personnel, that they are protected by law, for instance. During crises, weapon … and information sharing among the various humanitarian organizations involved with the …
… that remain. During the First World War, the International Committee of the Red Cross (the … – that is, a rule of customary international humanitarian law that binds all parties to armed conflicts, …
… (ICRC) – A regional moot-court competition in international humanitarian law took place in Tehran for the first time on …
… Islamic scholars in Yemen on the question of international humanitarian law and Islam, and on the ICRC emblem. Sheikh …
… 26-11-2014 Geneva (ICRC) – For 2015, the International Committee of the Red Cross … feature is the widening gap between vast humanitarian needs and an adequate response. … of 1977 and by customary international law Arms Trade Treaty Arms Trade Treaty, 2 …
… of liberty - detention - is a common and lawful occurrence in armed conflict that is … governed by a large number of provisions of international humanitarian law (IHL). Like other bodies of …
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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.
