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The ICRC takes this opportunity to present the prevailing legal opinion on the definition of "international armed conflict" and "non-international armed conflict" under...
Professional standards for protection work carried out by humanitarian and human rights actors in armed conflict and other situations of violence.
An annual report on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict in Afghanistan for 2012.
This brochure explains how the ICRC works to protect civilians in armed conflict and other situations of violence, proposing a step-by-step, multidisciplinary approach. The first chapter focuses...
This article seeks to conceptualize the notion of armed conflict and examines the extent to which the existing body of humanitarian law applies to the new asymmetrical conflicts.
This publication aims to provide States and armed groups, as well as humanitarian and other actors working with parties to non-international armed conflicts with suggestions for ways in which the...
The aim of this brochure is to enable the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to share with the various humanitarian actors and human rights non-governmental organizations (NGOs)...
The Professional Standards for Protection Work (2nd edition) reflect shared thinking and common agreement among humanitarian and human rights agencies (UN, NGOs and Red Cross and Red Crescent...
Children who take direct part in hostilities do not lose that special protection. The Additional Protocols, the 1989 Convention on the rights of the child and its recent Optional Protocol, in...
Humanitarian needs remain high due to continuing armed conflicts and general insecurity. An estimated 2.4 million people are displaced. Millions of people live in fear and rely on humanitarian aid...