A decade of conflict has weighed heavily on Libya, a country with a rich cultural heritage and home to a generation of youth with dreams of successful careers and economic security. Despite a recent …
13-11-2021 JERUSALEM - The “Humanitarian Hackathon 2021”, organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in partnership with MENACatalyst, was concluded this evening in Ramallah. …
12-11-2021 Glasgow – The African Development Bank and the ICRC said at the COP26 climate conference that low-income countries hit by conflict must not be pushed aside when it comes to climate action …
An electronic application is improving the quality of health care for children under five years old. ALMANACH, short for the Algorithm for the Management of Childhood Illness, is a user-friendly …
During the event “Water Scarcity: A Challenge to Sustainable Development in the Arab Region” the ICRC will lead the session “The Management of Scarce Water Resources during Protracted Armed …
This documentary series is about people who survived accidents of landmines and explosive remnants of war. The first film of the documentary series follows Sose Grigoryan, a landmine survivor as …
Dr. Abdikadir Haji Maalim, a surgeon at Madina hospital in the operating theatre attending to a weapon-wounded patient. Madina hospital sees most of the casualties of car bombs, shoot-outs, grenade …
08-11-2021 Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross presented its final report on forensic work to identify the remains of Argentine soldiers in the Falkland Islands (Malvinas). …
The Sixth Review Conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) , to be held from 13 to 17 December 2021 in Geneva, is a key moment for High Contracting Parties to take stock of, …
ICRC's Rwanda delegation held its fifth Annual National Moot Court Competition on International Humanitarian Law (IHL). The event, jointly organized by the ICRC, the Schools of Law and the Rwanda …
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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.
