Athletes with disabilities were full of enthusiasm and sportsmanship as they participated in the recently-held wheelchair basketball tournament at Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed …
Bangladesh National IHL Committee (NIHLC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) recently joined hands to organize a meeting in Dhaka for the National IHL Committees of Asia. The …
Since 2013, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been working on water supply in peri-urban areas. Launched in different years, the four ongoing projects mainly involve …
Yasser Abdul Aziz holds his four-year-old Ahmad near the window to help with him breathe during a power cut on a very hot day in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip. Ahmad and his brothers, Usama and …
A brief introduction to our microeconomic initiatives, such as productive grants, vocational training and microcredit. Read how these initiatives help people affected by conflict to earn a living or …
Every two years the ICRC, the International Federation, and the 191 National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies meet in the Council of Delegates of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent …
The ICRC signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS) on 17 December 2019, at the IPSS Headquarters in Addis Ababa. The agreement was signed by Dr. …
The African Union Commission Chairperson, Mr. Moussa Faki Mahamat, accepted the letter of credentials of Mr. Bruce Mokaya Orina, incoming Head of the ICRC delegation to the African Union, on 5 …
18-12-2019 Geneva/Kinshasa (ICRC) – When the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo announced, on 8 December, that they had captured a group of over 1,800 people in the Kalehe …
On December 17, 2019, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Grundfos, one of the world's top pump – and water solutions providers, officially signed an agreement that will gather …
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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.
