The fourth Asia-Pacific Correctional Managers' Conference (APCM) was held from 16 to 18 May in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Attended by 28 correctional managers from across the region, the conference was …
14-06-2017 A new ICRC report launched today reveals five times more civilians die in offensives carried out in cities than in other battles. The report, called 'I Saw My City Die', also found that …
Urban wars in Iraq, Syria and Yemen are amongst the deadliest conflicts of our time. People’s homes, their doorsteps, their streets, their schools and their hospitals are all part of the battlefield …
13-06-2017 Geneva/Sana'a–As the number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen reaches unprecedented levels, with one in every 200 Yemenis suspected of having been infected with the disease, the ICRC is …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) participated to the 29th session of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) held from 2 to 5 May 2017, in …
War is back in cities ... civilians are in the middle of it all once again. Antony Beevor, historian The wars decimating the ancient cities of Mosul, Taiz, and Aleppo have contributed to the greatest …
The ICRC participated in the 60th Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR), held from 8 to 22 May 2017, in Nyamey, Niger. The ICRC made an opening statement highlighting …
Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities United Nations, New York 13-15 June 2017 Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Armed conflict is a major …
12-06-2017 Following a new localized spike in hostilities in eastern Ukraine, workers manning a major water pumping station could not stay on duty, putting hundreds of thousands of people at risk of …
12-06-2017 Astana/Geneva (ICRC) – In a move to promote structured dialogue on international humanitarian law, the ICRC and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) entered into a Memorandum of …
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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.
