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Strengthening Compliance with IHL – Second Meeting of States on Strengthening Compliance with IHL, June 2013

Second Meeting of States on Strengthening Compliance with International Humanitarian Law (IHL) June 17/18, 2013 Geneva Background Document May 2013 Contents 1. Introduction …

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Discussion on Strengthening Compliance with International Humanitarian Law, Geneva, 8-9 April 2013

2nd Discussion on Strengthening Compliance with International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Functions of a possible IHL compliance system and their features 8–9 April 2013 Background document Geneva, March …

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From our archives: Modes of transport

… The purpose of these messages is to restore links between Congolese people and their …

How does law protect in war?

… allowing easy navigation, through hyperlinks, from legal theory to humanitarian … pp. 6-24. a) capture cards (to be sent to the family and the Central Tracing Agency) GC III, … Institute of Bangladesh, 2007, 144 pp. e) restoring family links GC III, Arts. 70 and …

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Strengthening compliance with IHL: Meeting with a group of States, April 2013

2nd Discussion on Strengthening Compliance with International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Functions of a possible IHL compliance system and their features 8–9 April 2013 Background document Geneva, March …

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Guiding Principles for the Domestic Implementation of a Comprehensive System of Protection for Children Associated with Armed Forces or Armed Groups

… assistance and care;29 identification, family reunification and unaccompanied … unless they are held together with their family. Boys should be separated from girls. … 10, para. 89. 384 annex XVI Under the CRC, family visits and correspondence must be …

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Missing persons and international humanitarian law

… experts and, most importantly, missing family associations all attended it. It … the vital role of networks that restore family links in which the ICRC, the Red Cross and Red …

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Women protected under international humanitarian law

… particularly vulnerable to the separation of family members and the suffering caused by the … ICRC plays a leading role around the world in restoring family links both during and after armed conflicts. …

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Guiding Principles / Model Law on the Missing

… both the missing person and his or her family. The provisions of international law … reported missing and must provide their family members with any information it has on … accordance with provisions of the [Civil Code/Family Law]. It shall include, at a minimum, …

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Protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict - Report

… 1954 Hague Convention and its Protocols? What links could be forged between those … a matter of establishing the necessary links between the civil and military … of Cultural Property in safeguarding or restoring such property. The terms 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.

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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.