Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, Statement of the ICRC, Geneva, November 2014 The Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) is one of the key …
ICRC president Peter Maurer meets with the chair of the African Union’s Peace and Security Council (PSC), H.E. Konjit Sinegiorgis, permanent representative of Ethiopia to the AU and international …
Detainee welfare The ICRC regularly visits detainees to ensure that their treatment and detention conditions meet international standards. We are working with the authorities in this area, and one …
14-11-2014 Beirut – Palestinian refugees arriving in Lebanon from Syria are facing harsh winter conditions in the northern Bekaa Valley, where whole families have little or no means of survival. …
17-11-2014 Tensions mounted in Bangui again last weekend when demonstrations by armed men blocked roads, bringing traffic in the capital to a standstill. The events are part of a rising wave of …
A summary of the ICRC's activities in South Sudan since the beginning of the emergency in mid-December 2013 to the end of October 2014. FACTS & FIGURES November 2014 ICRC IN SOUTH SUDAN Pawel …
18-11-2014 Belgrade/Pristina (ICRC) - The working group on persons unaccounted for in connection with events in Kosovo between 1998 and 1999 held its 38th session in Belgrade today. Officials from …
19-11-2014 The ICRC, in close cooperation with the Red Cross of Chad, has distributed essential items to over 5,000 displaced people living in the isolated area of Am Timan, south-eastern Chad. Since …
The annual plenary meeting of the ICRC Corporate Support Group took place on 6 November 2014, kindly hosted by Thomas Wellauer, Chief Operating Officer of Swiss Re, at Swiss Re's Headquarters in …
The ICRC is proud to present the "Global Partnerships for Humanitarian Impact and Innovation" (GPHI2). The mandate of the GPHI2 is to promote innovative solutions to humanitarian challenges, by …
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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.
