11-09-2017 Geneva (ICRC) -Speaking at the opening of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) Conference in Geneva, ICRC President Peter Maurer issued a stark reminder to States about the impact arms flows are …
Third Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty. Statement by the ICRC President, Peter Maurer . Today, we are witnessing brutal wars raging in many countries around the world, such as in …
Every day in conflict zones, doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers and first-aiders are coming under attack while trying to save lives. They are threatened, arrested or beaten, their hospitals looted or …
09-09-2017 Juba/Geneva: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is shocked and dismayed by the killing of one of its staff in South Sudan. The ICRC driver died on Friday after helping to …
Angela Ponce Romero, this year's winner of the ICRC Humanitarian Visa d'Or, was presented the award last night at the Visa pour l'image festival of photojournalism in Perpignan, France. The winning …
08-09-2017 Geneva/Myanmar/Bangladesh (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Myanmar and Bangladesh is scaling up its efforts to minimize the suffering of people fleeing …
The policies surrounding the construction and expansion of Israeli settlements are a key factor in most of the humanitarian challenges the ICRC deals with on a daily basis in the West Bank. The …
Joint statement by the Republic of South Africa and the International Committee of the Red Cross on the occasion of the 17th Annual regional seminar on international humanitarian law State …
The ICRC mission consists not only to protect and support victims of conflicts and violence, but also to promote and broadcast the international humanitarian law. We organize different activities, …
The 1988-1997 conflict in Bougainville resulted in the loss of thousands of lives. Many went missing at the outbreak of violence and remain unaccounted for, leaving their loved ones to endure the …
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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.
