IHL – International Humanitarian Law

General

This application (app) offers offline access to more than 80 treaties and different paperwork relating to worldwide humanitarian legislation (IHL) – most notably, the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, the ICRC’s authentic and updated Commentaries on the Conventions and Additional Protocols, the rules of customary IHL identified by the ICRC’s 2005 examine on customary IHL and varied ICRC paperwork on IHL. The app interface may be set to any of the eight languages listed within the settings of the aspect menu, under “App language”: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

Installation and updates

Once downloaded, the app works totally offline. When you first open “IHL”, we advocate you allow the app to complete the next processes: “Fetching IHL Treaties data”, “Fetching customary IHL data” and “Fetching PDF data”. This should take between 1 and three minutes. If it takes longer or if the app crashes, we suggest you complete the following steps:

1.Make sure your system is totally updated with the latest model of Android/iOS/Windows.

2.Make certain your system is connected to a Wi-Fi network.

3.Open the app and anticipate all data to be fetched (IHL treaties, study on customary IHL and PDFs). This should take no extra than 3 minutes.

4.If steps 1–3 don't work, uninstall the app.

5.Carry out steps 1 and 2 once more.

6.Download and re-install the app.

7.Carry out step 3 once more.

IHL treaties

The section on IHL treaties is organized by matter, states parties and date. You can download the list of ratifications in PDF or Excel formats by tapping on “States party to the primary treaties” at the bottom of the web page. Each treaty has a homepage with an introduction; particular articles could be accessed from this web page. The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols are accompanied by the ICRC’s original and updated commentaries. Tapping on “About this text” supplies general details about a treaty. If you tap on the title of a state in “State parties”, you're redirected to an inventory of all the treaties in drive for that state.

Customary IHL

The part on customary IHL is organized by subject and then by rule (in English only). Each rule comes with a proof. Related follow for each rule could be discovered on-line by tapping “Related practice” at the top of the web page; your system should be related to the web to access associated follow.

Law and policy documents

The part on legislation and coverage paperwork brings together public documents and links from the ICRC and the International Red Cross and Crescent Movement (Movement) that current or make clear numerous IHL notions and related points. It is organized by kind of document. All documents are available as PDFs in numerous languages.

PDFs

PDF versions of treaties and paperwork, and of volume I (rules) of the ICRC’s 2005 study, may be downloaded in any of the eight languages – provided the textual content in question has been translated – by tapping the bottom-right icon when within the document. All available PDFs in your device’s language are mechanically downloaded when the app is first installed. We advocate putting in a separate PDF reader to view recordsdata.

Search and Find in page

The app has an total search function. There can be a “Find in page” feature for each doc.

Bookmarks

You can bookmark paperwork or elements of paperwork by tapping the icon on the backside of the web page. You can manage your bookmarks by moving them up or down in the list, which may be accessed from the homepage or the facet menu. Bookmarks can additionally be grouped into folders that you could create and title your self.

Share

A share button – on the bottom of the web page of every document –¬ lets you share content via e mail and social media.

Feedback

You are encouraged to rate apps on completely different stores and to send ideas or observations to this address: [email protected].