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New e-learning module for health-care professionals

… and other emergencies, was unveiled by the International Committee of the Red Cross … and Red Crescent Movement is the largest humanitarian network in the world. Its mission … regional congresses, courses and workshops (law of armed conflict, ethics, etc.) and the …

News release

Round-up of ICRC Activities in Afghanistan between July and September 2014

… by nations contributing to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force … Promoting compliance with international humanitarian law (IHL) Reminding the parties to a conflict …

Article

Lack of resources for prisons is having a severe impact on the lives of millions of detainees

… Annual Conference of the International Corrections and Prisons … conflict and violence or where other severe humanitarian needs are emerging. The essence … a larger societal problem: where the rule of law has given way in prisons to mob rule and …

Statement

Afghanistan: Protecting medical services remains as important as ever

… attention be spared at all times." Under international humanitarian law, civilians, medical workers and health …

News release

How Does Law Protect in War? Online platform

… Materials on Contemporary Practice in International Humanitarian Law, by Marco Sassòli, Antoine A. Bouvier and …

Law and policy topic

Syria: ICRC delivers food to over 95,000 people in eastern rural Aleppo

… Geneva/Damascus (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross … of their obligation under international humanitarian law to protect and spare civilians at all …

Law and policy topic

The Geneva Conventions 150 years later … still relevant?

… to reflect on the development of the law of war and the continued relevance of the … Annual Southern Africa Regional Seminar on International Humanitarian Law (IHL), an annual event …

Law and policy topic
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Pakistan: Conference on humanitarian action in the light of sharia and international humanitarian law

… 22-10-2014 Islamabad (ICRC) – A two-day international conference on challenges and perspectives of humanitarian action in the light of sharia and international humanitarian law opened today in Islamabad. The conference, …

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Detention in non-international armed conflict – Second thematic consultation of government experts, 20-22 October 2014.

… relevant protections drawn from a variety of international law instruments and assessed the practical … the International Conference that a number of humanitarian issues related to deprivation of …

Law and policy topic

Yemen: Protecting the emblems that protect lives

… more and more people now understand our humanitarian concerns and our impartial and … said Mr Schweizer. "The customary rules and international laws are clear: the red cross and red crescent …

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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.

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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.

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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.