06-10-2024 As we approach one year from the attacks of 7 October 2023, and the widespread escalation of hostilities that followed, people in the region continue to endure an unbearable toll of pain, …
As we approach a year from the attacks of 7 October 2023, the deep impacts of that day still reverberate across Israel. Anguished families wait for release of those held hostage , or at least of news …
Since the escalation of hostilities over the past year, the challenges facing the people of Gaza have drastically increased. Prior to October of last year, Gazans were already living with challenges …
05-10-2024 Geneva (ICRC) – Seventeen metric tons of urgently needed medical supplies have arrived in Beirut via air cargo from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). This shipment …
Chair, The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) unequivocally condemns acts of terrorism of all forms, no matter whether they occur during or outside of armed conflict and irrespective of …
04-10-2024 Geneva (ICRC) – As violence intensifies across the Middle East, the region sits on the precipice of a region-wide armed conflict. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) …
This publication is a collection of eight business cards (inclusive of the corresponding publication title + a QR code leading to the e-Shop link of the publication) of eight Forensic publications …
For people in the Central African Republic , clean drinking water is hard to come by, owing to a lack of investment in the water supply and treatment network, the long-standing armed conflict in the …
In 2024, the 75th anniversary of the 1949 Geneva Conventions presents a pivotal opportunity to reaffirm the crucial role of international humanitarian law (IHL) in preventing and mitigating the …
In the third year since the escalation of the armed conflict, communities in Eastern Ukraine prepare for the coming winter. “We returned here in the autumn of 2023. We came back because home is …
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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.
