After months of training, Afghanistan's 12-man wheelchair basketball team flew to Japan for the Asia Oceania championship of the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation. For Afghanistan's …
Zamboanga City, in Western Mindanao, is buzzing with life again, two years after armed fighting disrupted many lives. Around 120,000 people were displaced by clashes in Zamboanga in September 2013. …
A conference on the future of international humanitarian law and the prospects for teaching it in Russia, Belarus and Moldova took place on 25 November 2015 in Moscow. The event was organized by the …
What do ethics have to do with protecting health care? How can we make sure doctors and nurses – civilian or soldiers – know their rights and responsibilities? What can we do to ensure everyone else …
On 3 October 2015, Médecins Sans Frontières' hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, was bombed. 30 people were killed – including 13 health-care workers – and 37 injured. MSF declares that Coalition and …
The Life & Death campaign marked its 4th anniversary on World Humanitarian Day (19 August). The campaign's goal is to raise awareness of the serious consequences of violence against health-care …
In October 2015, British photographer Giles Duley travelled to South Sudan with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Himself a triple amputee – the result of an IED in Afghanistan – …
Who to treat first, a civilian or a combatant? Under international humanitarian law all wounded people shall be considered to be patients first, whether civilian or combatant. Ethically speaking, …
It has been a busy summer for the HCiD ambulance. It first travelled to Stockholm to take part in the 150th anniversary celebrations of the Swedish Red Cross. It then moved to Växjö for the Swedish …
This publication is a compilation of all recommendations and best practices relating to the proper handling of the remains of those who die in direct or indirect relation to an armed conflict or …
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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.
