09-08-2017 Bangui/Geneva- The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is shocked and saddened by the violent deaths of six Red Cross volunteers earlier this week in the Central Africa …
With hundreds of thousands of people living in towns and villages close to the front line in eastern Ukraine, survival is a daily fight. The ICRC has been helping such people affected by the conflict …
08-08-2017 Harare (ICRC) – Thirty representatives from 12 southern African countries including members of the military, police are in Harare, Zimbabwe from 8 to 11 August 2017 for a seminar to …
08-08-2017 Geneva/Sana'a (ICRC) – The ICRC is extremely alarmed at a pattern of recent airstrikes that have killed and injured dozens of civilians in the Sa'ada and Taiz governorates in Yemen. In the …
07-08-2017 Geneva (ICRC) – The work of an ICRC forensic team to identify Argentine soldiers buried in Darwin cemetery came to an end on 7 August with a simple religious ceremony. During seven weeks …
Highlights: 414 war-wounded civilians and combatants were operated on by surgical teams deployed or trained by the ICRC. 42,000 people received essential supplies in North and South Kivu. 42 …
Joint Statement on the anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Seventy-two years ago this week the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were obliterated and tens of thousands of …
04-08-2017 Port Moresby (ICRC) - The ICRC this week conducted a training session on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) for officials of the PNG Government, at the invitation of the recently …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confirms that it did not take part in the operation to transfer fighters and civilians from the border Arsal plains to Syria, contrary to reports …
If you're a specialist in general & orthopedic surgery, a fourth or a fifth-year resident, this is your chance to earn a diploma in Clinical Management of Weapon-Wounded Patients. Along with lectures …
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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.
