On Nov. 27th, 2017, Vincent Raymond Ochilet, Deputy Head of the ICRC Regional Delegation for East Asia gives opening remarks during an emergency management training session at the Chinese Academy of …
09-12-2017 Geneva / Sana'a – As reports of intense fighting along Yemen's Red Sea Coast continue to emerge, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) urges all parties to the conflict in …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is organizing its 31st surgical seminar in Geneva. It will be held at Ecogia training centre from 3.00 p.m. on Sunday 10 December to 4.00 p.m. on …
Imagine surviving a war, only for your child to go missing. The CCTV footage at the beginning is a reenactment; however, the scenes of families being reunited after years apart are all too real. You …
11-12-2017 Geneva – The number of families being separated by conflict, violence and natural disaster is at a five year high according to data from the International Committee of the Red Cross …
The conflict in Syria continues to fuel one of the largest and most complex humanitarian crises in the world today. According to Pawel Krzysiek, ICRC Head of Communications in Syria, the conflict is …
The ICRC, working closely with the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS), has treated 30,000 patients in the past three months in Cox's Bazar. Every day, four doctors, four paramedics and BDRCS …
Abdullahi Abdrahman waits for the food distribution exercise to begin. The 70-year-old walked over 200km in the past months in search of food, water and pasture for his family and remaining frail …
The ICRC in Tajikistan and the Committee for Religious Affairs jointly organized a two-day workshop on the role of religious leaders in emergencies on from 11 to 12 October 2017. Due to its …
ICRC legal adviser Netta Goussac talks about new technologies and IHL, including the applicability of IHL to drone strikes, the importance of human control over and the accountability gap with …
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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.
