… Congo between July and September 2014. The International Committee of the Red Cross … independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives … of violations of international humanitarian law collected by its teams on the ground have …
… the use of such weapons unless respect for international humanitarian law can be guaranteed. How could autonomous …
… The main sources of international humanitarian law (IHL) are international treaty and …
… Promoting international humanitarian law The ICRC promotes IHL among the Malian armed forces, international armed forces in Mali and other …
… of their role in promoting and implementing international humanitarian law at national level. "It is the …
… Red Cross took the lead in the local humanitarian response to the war – including … of the Second World War, there was no international convention covering the … the Strengthening International Humanitarian Law project, the ICRC is leading a major …
… agreements to focus as well on the rule of law, security sector reforms, humanitarian assistance and the protection of … concerning the legal framework (including international humanitarian law) governing such …
… (ICRC) – Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross … Stylianides, European commissioner for humanitarian aid and crisis management. The … promoter of international humanitarian law and supporter of the ICRC. "In today's …
… An international conference on cyber security, the humanitarian consequences of cyber wars and … the application of international humanitarian law took place in Moscow recently. The event …
… refugees, returnees and displaced persons and humanitarian questions. United Nations, … has reached an unprecedented level. If the international community is to curb this trend, … ensure respect for international humanitarian law, as set out in Article 1 common to the …
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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.
