Legislation for Common Law States on the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their 1977 and 2005 Additional Protocols ADVISORY SERVICE ON INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW ____________________________________ …
Document suggesting model legislative provisions to be used by States as guidance in the drafting of legislation on the use and protection of the r ed cross, red crescent and red crystal emblems . …
This analysis of the punishments applicable to international crimes (war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide) covers 64 countries. The sample is satisfactory in terms of geographical …
Assessing national measures to implement international humanitarian law allows the authorities to verify which measures have already been taken and which remain to be taken in order to honour the …
Opinion paper - definition of "international armed conflict" and "non-international armed conflict" under International Humanitarian Law, the branch of international law which governs armed conflict. …
06-11-2007 Teams representing eight universities from Mainland China participated in a two-day moot court competition on 3-4 November at Renmin University in Beijing. This first ever national round …
Document adopted by the ICRC Assembly on 27 April 2006. The genocide of the Jews and Gypsies and other persecutions carried out under the Third Reich were the cause of unspeakable suffering. That …
Proposals for further reading on the ICRC's work during the Second World War. Studies Ben-Tov, Arieh, Facing the Holocaust in Budapest: The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Jews in …
15-10-2007 The Chinese version of a world-wide study conducted by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) of the practices on states in times of armed conflict was launched in Beijing on …
21-06-2007 On 18-19 June 2007 a regional meeting entitled "Symposium for the 30th Anniversary of the Adoption of the 1977 Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August, 1949: …
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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.
