This livestreamed public event, held on 16 September gathered internationally recognized historians, academics and senior humanitarian practitioners to discuss the doctrine of humanitarian …
Nasri is a 21-year old Syrian from Damascus. "In my group we are four women, six babies and one man," he explains, the one man being him. They fled the fighting in their native land on 1 March 2015, …
According to the information collected by the Red Cross Societies, between November 2014 and mid-2015, 28 migrants died in train accidents in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, four froze to …
Hivro and his wife (whom we will call Asra for the purposes of this story) are refugees from Syria. They spent a month in dfferent accommodation centres in Bulgaria, neither of them knowing what had …
17-09-2015 Khartoum (ICRC) - Dominik Stillhart, the director of operations at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), today concluded a visit to Sudan where he discussed the scope of the …
Extract from ICRC publication " International humanitarian law: answers to your questions " International humanitarian law (IHL) regulates relations between States, international organizations and …
15th Annual Regional Seminar on International Humanitarian Law 18 – 21 August 2015 OR Tambo Building, Pretoria Representatives from 16 Southern African countries gathered in South Africa from 18 to …
18-09-2015 Harare (ICRC) – A seminar aimed at identifying best practices to improve access to essential health services during peace support operations recently brought together 17 experts from 11 …
18-09-2015 Juba, 18 September 2015 - Since Thursday, the ICRC and South Sudan Red Cross (SSRC) emergency action teams have been working tirelessly around the clock to help victims of the fuel truck …
The second humanitarian hub event held in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, as part of the Voices to Action campaign aimed to complement the online platform created to discuss ideas and thoughts about today's …
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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.
