13-12-2016 Manila (ICRC) – Nearly 7,000 people have been displaced for more than a month following armed clashes between government security forces and armed groups in Basilan province, southern …
13-12-2016 Thousands of civilians' lives are in danger as frontlines close in around them in eastern Aleppo. As the battle reaches new peaks and the area is plunged into chaos, thousands with no part …
12-12-2016 Abuja (ICRC) – In recent days, surgical teams from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have treated over 90 people wounded in the bomb blasts in Madagali and Maiduguri in …
In November 2016, ICRC director of communications - Charlotte Lindsey, gave a speech to an international gathering of survivors, practitioners and experts looking at the issue of sexual violence. …
ICRC-commissioned survey of 17,000 people in 16 countries reveals both reassuring and troubling views on issues relating to war By Pascal Porchet Head of the ICRC delegation in the Philippines Syria. …
- A story for the 10th anniversary of the IHL moot court The Law School of Nanjing University had never reached the final eight of an IHL Moot Court competition, narrowly finishing ninth two years …
A round-up of our activities in Kyrgyzstan in 2016: Improving the treatment of detainees ICRC visited 9,700 detainees in 59 places of detention. The Prison Management Plan and Standards of Internal …
11-12-2016 Karachi (ICRC) – A public awareness campaign on respecting ambulances' right of way, entitled RastaDein, was launched in Karachi in 2016 as part of the Health Care in Danger project. A …
09-12-2016 Delegations from Argentina and the United Kingdom today agreed, in principle, on the mandate that they will jointly entrust to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to carry …
On the occasion of International Human Rights Day – we, the undersigned organizations, speak out in support of the Health Care in Danger initiative. We forcefully renew our call for wounded and sick …
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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.
