08-11-2014 Bamako (ICRC) – Members of the Malian parliament are taking part in a daylong event in Bamako today that is intended to raise awareness of their role in promoting and implementing …
On 27 September of this year, the Singapore Red Cross (SRC) had two reasons to celebrate: first, the launch of its mobile museum, and second, the 65th anniversary of its founding. Red Cross stories …
Promoting international humanitarian law The ICRC promotes IHL among the Malian armed forces, international armed forces in Mali and other weapon-bearers. It also supports the authorities' efforts to …
The main sources of international humanitarian law (IHL) are international treaty and customary law. In addition, domestic traditional law can improve the protection of victims of armed conflict. The …
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is shocked and saddened by the death of Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) volunteers Ikhlas Ibraheem al-Sulaiman and Muhammad Ahmad Othman, of the …
A challenge to human control over the use of force. Technological advances in weaponry mean that decisions about the use of force on the battlefield could increasingly be taken by machines operating …
Basic household goods were recently distributed in the highlands of Kalehe, South Kivu, in the rather unconventional style of a market. Set up for people whose homes had been looted or destroyed when …
In war, anything connected to a computer network can be targeted from anywhere in the world, according to experts attending a recent conference on cyber warfare in Moscow. That includes civilian …
A summary of the ICRC's activities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo between July and September 2014. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and …
13-11-2014 Geneva/Damascus (ICRC) – The scale of the crisis in Syria, with millions of people affected, is staggering, and parties to the conflict must do more to protect civilians, including health …
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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.
