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Easy Guide to International Humanitarian Law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt)

IHL Resource Centre

Useful links

Here we have gathered some useful links to other web sites with information about international humanitarian law and its application in the oPt. 

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To ACRI, Association for Civil Rights in Israel

To Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel

To Al-Haq 

To Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights 

To ARIJ: Applied Research Institute Jerusalem 

To B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories 

To HaMoked, Center for the Defence of the Individual 

To HPCR: The Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research at Harvard University 

To ICRC: International Committee of the Red Cross 

To Magen David Adom (in Hebrew) 

To Mossawa – the Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens of Israel

To OCHA: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs 

To PASSIA: Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs 

To PCHR: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 

To PHR: Physicians for Human Rights

To PLO Negotiations Affairs Department 

To PRCS, Palestine Red Crescent Society 

To The World Bank Group: Reports and publications about the West Bank and the Gaza Strip 

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To Amnesty International

To Coalition for the International Criminal Court

To Crimes of War Project 

To HPRC: The Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research at Harvard University

To Human Rights Watch

To ICC: International Criminal Court

To ICJ: International Court of Justice

To ICRC: International Committee of the Red Cross

To the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

To OCHA: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

To OHCHR: Office of the UN High Commission for Human Rights

To RULAC: Rule of Law in Armed Conflicts Project

To the Swedish Government’s website on human rights

To the Swedish Red Cross

To the website of the UN

Jenin refugee camp rooftops, May 2006.

Jenin refugee camp rooftops, May 2006. Photo: Matilda Svensson

 

The EU Guidelines on Promoting Compliance with International Humanitarian Law

Within the framework of its Common Foreign and Security Policy, the European Union has adopted a number of guidelines with the purpose to promote human rights and democratisation in the third world. There are curently six guidelines, among them the guidelines on human rights and the guidelines on children and armed conflict. In 2005, the EU adopted its sixth guidelines on the promotion of IHL.

The purpose of the last guidelines is to set out operational tools for the EU and its institutions and bodies to promote compliance with international humanitarian law (IHL). They underline the European Union's commitment to promote such compliance in a visible and consistent manner.

To the European Union Guidelines on Promoting Compliance with International Humanitarian Law (160 kB)

 

Revised
27/07/2011 Berenice Van Den Driessche ihl@diakonia.se

International Humanitarian Law Programme

Diakonia Regional Office in Jerusalem
ihl@diakonia.se

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