Institutional procedures for the implementation of international humanitarian law

Abstract

The national committees of international humanitarian law is the most important institutional procedures that the countries strive to adopted at the national level, because it is important preventive procedures. The States resorted to the establishment of this type of committees when they felt the need for it, despite the absence of a legal obligation in the international humanitarian conventions to form it. which includes representatives from various ministries and other national institutions that have jurisdiction in the application of the mentioned law, through dealing and close cooperation in Most of the cases with these national institutions and National Societies of Red Cross and Red Crescent at the national level, in addition to their close cooperation with the General Assembly of the United Nations through support the latter for the formation of these committees, States also differed in the mechanism of their formation and the representative entities, owing to the different internal systems of each country and the decisions concerned with its formation.Thus, The experiments were proved that they are valuable and very effective to support the implementation process within the State, because it has important jurisdiction and authorities in the field of implementation of mentioned law . the importance of these committees, and for the purpose of carrying out its international obligations, Iraq has endeavored to form the Permanent National Committee for International Humanitarian Law under Order No. 15 in 2015, which sought to form a set of pros and cons, which the legislator must avoid when enacting the law of the latter.