As water cuts in Aleppo reach an all-time high, the ICRC and its local partner organizations are asking for help in publicizing a GPS-enabled map that gives users the ability to pinpoint themselves …
11-11-2015 On 11-12 November 2015, 24 African States gathered to discuss the Montreux Document on pertinent international legal obligations and good practices for States related to operations of …
Group work on case studies from "How does law protect in war?" allows students to apply the Geneva Conventions to concrete issues related to sexual violence, such as criminal repression © ICRC / T. …
12-11-2015 Geneva/Yerevan/Baku (ICRC) – An Armenian civilian was repatriated today in an operation carried out under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The woman had …
In June 2012, the first ICRC-sponsored women's wheelchair basketball team was established in Battambang, in northwest Cambodia. Since then, this initiative has had a life-changing impact on the lives …
The intensifying violence in Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic , and elsewhere in the country is cause for grave concern. The ICRC's head of delegation in Bangui describes in words and …
Statement of the International Committee of the Red Cross to the 2015 Meeting of High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons The International Committee of the Red …
Building on the previous panel discussion " Responding to sexual violence in conflict: can we do better ?", the ICRC and the Geneva Centre for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action (CERAH) …
Geneva (ICRC) - As major powers gather in Vienna for fresh talks to try to end the conflict in Syria , the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has called on states to intensify efforts to …
13-11-2015 ICRC staff take part in the evacuation of bodies from Donetsk airport. ICRC / O. Davydova. Kiev (ICRC) – More than 40 experts from Ukraine and other countries have participated in the …
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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.
