05-10-2024 Geneva (ICRC) – Seventeen metric tons of urgently needed medical supplies have arrived in Beirut via air cargo from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). This shipment …
Chair, The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) unequivocally condemns acts of terrorism of all forms, no matter whether they occur during or outside of armed conflict and irrespective of …
04-10-2024 Geneva (ICRC) – As violence intensifies across the Middle East, the region sits on the precipice of a region-wide armed conflict. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) …
This publication is a collection of eight business cards (inclusive of the corresponding publication title + a QR code leading to the e-Shop link of the publication) of eight Forensic publications …
For people in the Central African Republic , clean drinking water is hard to come by, owing to a lack of investment in the water supply and treatment network, the long-standing armed conflict in the …
In 2024, the 75th anniversary of the 1949 Geneva Conventions presents a pivotal opportunity to reaffirm the crucial role of international humanitarian law (IHL) in preventing and mitigating the …
In the third year since the escalation of the armed conflict, communities in Eastern Ukraine prepare for the coming winter. “We returned here in the autumn of 2023. We came back because home is …
In this report on international humanitarian law (IHL) and the challenges of contemporary armed conflicts, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) sets out its views on some of the most …
On 27 September 2024 Brazil, China, France, Jordan, Kazakhstan and South Africa together with the ICRC launched a global initiative to galvanize political commitment to international humanitarian law …
27-09-2024 27 September 2024 New York – Brazil, China, France, Jordan, Kazakhstan, and South Africa today launched a global initiative to galvanize political commitment in support of international …
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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.
