Updated Commentary brings fresh insights on continued relevance of Geneva Conventions for treatment of prisoners of war What is acceptable and what is prohibited in armed conflict? The four Geneva …
Jerusalem - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) calls upon the Israeli authorities to shoulder their full responsibilities under International Humanitarian Law (IHL) with regard to …
Yousef and his wife Halema are both 73 years old. They have two sons detained in Israel. For the past 30 years, they have been able to visit their sons through the ICRC family visit programme. …
On the occasion of the remembrances marking the 100th anniversary of the First World War, the ICRC is launching its new online e-briefing which looks at the evolution of warfare from the eighteenth …
Life just got a little easier for the women of one village in Papua New Guinea's Southern Highlands Province. Collecting water, traditionally the task of women in this part of the world, used to be …
The ICRC is striving to mainstream sustainability as part of an appropriate and effective approach to its work to assist the victims of conflict and other situations of violence. By adhering to the …
28-04-2017 Mogadishu, Somalia (ICRC) - Drought-stricken families in rural Somalia have been given a lifeline via $100 cash grants to see them through lean times brought on by severe drought. The …
With the Syrian conflict entering its seventh year, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Jordan is keeping up its efforts to assist Syrian refugees and communities hosting them, …
On the occasion of the African Pre-Trial Detention, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the African Commission for Human and People's Rights (ACHPR), the African Policing Civilian …
by Dominik Stillhart, Director of Operations, ICRC We are on the brink of a humanitarian mega-crisis unprecedented in recent history. The spectre of famine looms large over parts of Africa and 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.
