Exploring Humanitarian Law (EHL) Guide: A Legal Manual for EHL Teachers
Organized in a question and answer format, the Guide offers teachers and other interested parties concise information on specific IHL …
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HIV/AIDS Field Guide: A Planning and Practice Guide to Integrating HIV/AIDS into the ICRC's Health Work
This field guide is designed to assist in responding to HIV/AIDS as an integral part of health activities. It provides guidance and decision making tools to help decide what to do amongst specific …
Missing Persons: A Handbook for Parliamentarians
This manual, elaborated jointly by the Inter-parliamentary Union (IPU) and the ICRC, is composed of three sections. The first chapter contextualises the issue of persons reported missing following an …
International Humanitarian Law - Handbook for Parliamentarians
This handbook is designed to familiarize parliamentarians with international humanitarian law and to heighten their awareness of the key role they, as political leaders, can play in promoting its …
ICRC Survey: Our World, Views from the Field – Summary Report
To raise awareness of the impact of armed conflict or other situations of armed violence on civilians, in 2009 the ICRC launched a vast research programme in eight of the most troubled countries in …
Inter-Agency Guiding Principles on Unaccompanied and Separated Children
This set of comprehensive guidelines outlines a framework and set of principles intended to ensure that the rights and needs of separated children are effectively addressed. Created through close …
Technical Review: Borehole Drilling and Rehabilitation under Field Conditions
This review presents practical experience in the field of borehole drilling and rehabilitation and forms the first Water and Habitat publication in the ICRC's new series, …
The ICRC: Its Mission and Work
This brochure begins by stating the ICRC's mission, then describes the organization itself and discusses its identity, legal foundations and scope of action. It goes on to explain the ICRC's varied …
Humanity in War: Frontline Photography since 1860
Since the second half of the nineteenth century, photography has played a fundamental role in opening the world's eyes to the horrors of war. During the same period, the ICRC has worked to alleviate …
Handbook of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
This important work contains all the texts that serve as a basis for the ICRC, the International Federation and national Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Included are: the Fundamental Principles …
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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.
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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 IHL
Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.