… Meeting to Commemorate and Promote the International Day for the Total Elimination of … Weapons. This day is a reminder of the urgent humanitarian imperative to rid the world of … in line with international humanitarian law. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear …
… up again in Yemen, this time in Marib. The International Committee of the Red Cross is … medical supplies, but significant unmet humanitarian needs remain, including among the … protected by international humanitarian law. On Thursday, an ICRC team delivered …
… weapons, and nuclear testing. Today is the International Day for the Total Elimination of … takes many forms, and one way is through the law. In January of this year we celebrated an … ongoing pandemic, climate risks and multiple humanitarian crises, we now have a global norm …
… Statement given by the International Committee of the Red Cross … Minister Micheál Martin. As an exclusively humanitarian organization, the ICRC works to … respect for international humanitarian law rules that protect the natural environment …
… Dr Gilles Carbonnier, Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross … is civilians who are their main victims. The humanitarian consequences are unacceptable. … treaty, rooted in international humanitarian law. It protects civilians, remedies a serious …
… the authorities, education institutions, humanitarian organizations and other … for Peace and Reconciliation (ASEAN-IPR) and International Committee of the Red Cross … Dr Helen Durham, Director of International Law and Policy at the ICRC, underlined that …
… The International Committee of the Red Cross … added from urban sections of Harare and Bulawayo. They were all interviewed individually … hardship by promoting and strengthening humanitarian law and championing universal …
… and with the technical expertise of the International Committee of the Red Cross … Ossetian and Russian participants in a purely humanitarian platform of exchange. The … According to International Humanitarian Law, the families of those who have gone …
… impartial and independent organization, whose humanitarian mission is to protect and assist … by armed conflict, and to promote respect for international humanitarian law and universal humanitarian principles. …
… at a high-level ministerial meeting on the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan on 13 … People told me they felt betrayed: by the international community's tunnel-vision focus … respect for International Humanitarian Law and for humanitarian actors; and it erodes …
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Created in 1863, the ICRC library, alongside the ICRC archives, provides an indispensable documentary reference on the organization itself and international humanitarian law.
International humanitarian law is based on a number of treaties, in particular the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols, and a series of other instruments.
Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.
