22-11-2016 Geneva / Sana'a – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is alarmed by the situation in the city of Taiz following days of intensive fighting. "Sniper fire and indiscriminate …
Hicham Mandoudi, who recently ended a two-year mission serving as deputy head of the ICRC delegation in Jordan, sat down for a short interview and reflected on his experience at the end of this …
In strife-torn Syria, millions of women, men and children are in desperate need of immediate assistance to survive in these difficult times. The ICRC endeavours to meet the needs of the affected …
22-11-2016 Geneva/Kiev (ICRC) –The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) calls upon the members of the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk to take urgent action to ensure a continued water …
Following countless hours of preparation by law students and years of hard-fought competition between three universities, the Zimbabwe National International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Moot Court …
With maritime and territorial disputes a feature of the Asia-Pacific region, the law of naval warfare is of particular relevance in this part of the world. A recent workshop in Surabaya, Indonesia, …
18-11-2016 Jerusalem (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is concerned about the deteriorating health of Anas Shadid and Ahmad Abu Farra, who have been hospitalized in Israel. …
18-11-2016 Beijing - The tenth edition of the international humanitarian law (IHL) moot competition- an inter-university competition on IHL -opens today in China University of Political Science and …
Pierre Dorbes, head of delegation of the ICRC Regional Delegation of East Asia, talks about his work in Rwanda in …
Have patience my daughter. We will be together again one day. With these words, Sa'adeya comforted her daughter Iqra'a when she spoke to her by telephone for the first time since losing contact with …
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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.
