07-12-2018 Geneva (ICRC) – The humanitarian sector’s growing use of digital and mobile technologies creates records that can be accessed and misused by third parties, potentially putting people …
Unprecedented stress on the most advanced health-care systems. Extreme strain on major economies and financial markets. A global shutdown such as the world has never seen before. This is today's …
… Ben, Perfidy, New York, Messner, 1961, 281 pp. JOBST Valentine, “Is the Wearing of the … some students will need IHL in their future jobs Last but not least, we have to state the … professionals, who suddenly lost their jobs. 30. Whether acting individually, or in …
The records produced by ICRC services, secretariats and departments in Geneva have an index number starting with the letter B. Particular attention should be drawn to the records pertaining to …
… cadets at military academies for their future jobs as military commanders and the need to …
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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.
