ICRC DATABASES AND NATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION PROJECTS

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ICRC DATABASES AND NATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION
PROJECTS
Thomas Graditzky
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ICRC IT-tools in the service of IHL

• IHL databases
• IHL Treaties and Comments
• IHL National Implementation
• ICRC Website http//www.icrc.org
• Electronic Forum for IHL National Committees
• Other tools

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Database IHL Treaties and Comments

• Content
• 98 treaties and other documents relating to IHL
  (from 1856 to the present)
• Short introduction to each document
• Commentaries on the four Geneva Conventions of
  1949 and their 1977 Additional Protocols
• Up-to-date list of States which have signed,
  ratified, acceded or succeeded to these treaties
• Full text of reservations, declarations and
  objections

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Database IHL Treaties and Comments

• Search by keywords
• Word search
• English and French versions
• Available on the Internet (ICRC Website)
  http//www.icrc.org/ihl

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Database IHL National Implementation

• Content for each country
• General comment
• Laws and regulations (introduction and full text)
• National case law (summary, extracts or full
  text)
• Structure of the database English
• Texts in English, French or Spanish (original
  versions or translations)

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Database IHL National Implementation

• 100 countries covered (number increasing)
• Content drawn from information available to the
  ICRC Advisory Service on IHL
• Search by keywords
• Word search
• Links to relevant provisions of IHL treaties
  (IHL Treaties and Comments database)
• Available on the Internet (ICRC Website)
  http//www.icrc.org/ihl-nat

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ICRC Website http//www.icrc.org

• Access to the aforementioned databases
• Pages on IHL related topics (protection of the
  emblem, protected persons and property, national
  implementation, etc.)
• Sites in English, French, Spanish and Arabic
  pages in Portuguese and Russian
• Search engine

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Electronic Forum forIHL National Committees

• Objectives
• To facilitate the exchange of information and
  experience between IHL National Committees
• To develop contacts between the Committees
• and so to encourage States to adopt the
  national measures required to implement
  international humanitarian law.

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Electronic Forum forIHL National Committees

• Content
• Interactive discussion
• Information and documents
• Contact details and links

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Electronic Forum forIHL National Committees

• Structure English
• Content English is encouraged
• Other languages of communication French and
  Spanish
• Users may submit documents in any language

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Electronic Forum forIHL National Committees

• Who can access the Forum ?
• Members of IHL National Committees
• ICRC legal advisers
• Organizations and specialists with an interest in
  the subject

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Electronic Forum forIHL National Committees
Accessing the Forum Via the ICRC
Extranet http//extranet.icrc.org/droit_internati
onal
(or via the ICRC Website Humanitarian law gt
National implementation gt Bodies involved gt
National Committees)
User name and password required
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Other tools (examples)

• Teaching file for armed and security forces
  includes a CD-rom
• DVD-rom with an interactive programme for police
  and security forces (To Serve and to Protect)
• Educational programme for young people (Exploring
  Humanitarian Law) contains videos