World Red Cross Day 2017 was special for Bhutan this year. In a ceremony steeped in tradition and graced with the presence of Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen, Bhutan Red Cross Society (BRCS) was officially …
Forty-one serving military officers from five continents gathered in New Delhi to participate in a Regional Workshop on Integrated Protection of Civilians (PoC) held in December 2016. The workshop …
As conflict escalates in the Upper Nile region, tens of thousands of people have been displaced and are now living in Aburoc village. CC BY-NC-ND / ICRC / Alyona Synenko This situation has forced …
Decades of ongoing conflict have left Myanmar heavily contaminated by landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO). Many people live in fear of the cluster munition remnants. For over two years, in order …
ICRC to hold a photo exhibition on families of missing persons in Brasilia. On 16 May, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will launch an exhibition, A falta que você faz (The void …
On World Red Cross Day, we thank our Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers and staff. …
Appeal by the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement On 24-26 April, leaders and experts of 35 National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, their International Federation, and the ICRC, …
Joint statement, Tadateru Konoé, President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and Peter Maurer, President of the ICRC Across the world, crises are increasingly …
08-05-2017 The ICRC and The National Press Club Malaysia (NPC), together with the Malaysian Red Crescent Society (MRCS), celebrate the World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day today by launching the 2017 …
Course description Organized by the ICRC and the Red Cross of Belgium, this immersive five-day course in international humanitarian law (IHL) is open to humanitarian practitioners who wish to become …
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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.
