Occupation
… have refocused attention on occupation law. Contemporary challenges to international humanitarian law – Occupation Under …
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Jus ad bellum and jus in bello
… International humanitarian law (IHL), or jus in bello , is the law that … Explaining jus ad bellum and jus in bello International humanitarian law (IHL), or jus …
Protected persons: Missing persons
… with ICRC rise 75 per cent in five years International Day of the Disappeared Every … Assistance Mexico: ICRC Calls for Adoption of Law on the Missing Missing people under international humanitarian law Both civilians and combatants …
Methods and means of warfare
… International law regulates the methods and means of … New technologies and the modern battlefield: Humanitarian perspectives Methods and means of warfare and international humanitarian law The main …
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… region and key thematic areas such as international humanitarian law, health care, detention, and missing …
Conventional weapons
… International humanitarian law bans or restricts certain types of … no military purpose. Conventional weapons and international humanitarian law International …
The Geneva Conventions and their Commentaries
… and their Additional Protocols are international treaties that contain the most … These rules are set out in international humanitarian law. Yes, even wars have limits. The rules of …
New technologies and warfare
… armed drones and robots, raising novel humanitarian and legal challenges. New … that a State assess whether it complies with international humanitarian law. However, applying pre-existing legal …
Climate and conflict
… We are calling for this trend to be reversed. Humanitarian organizations have an important … and conflicts. The ICRC, together with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red … Life in the hotspot From the Humanitarian Law and Policy blog Climate and Conflict This …
Protected persons: The wounded, the sick and health-care providers
… That principle remained the core of international humanitarian law as it extended to other aspects of war and …
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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.
Customary IHL
Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.