Niamey (ICRC) – As conflict, climate shocks and political and socio-economic crises continue to ravage the Sahel region, Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross …
Mission of the Protection in the Movement initative: To have more people better protected Protection work is increasingly important for the Movement. Millions of people continue to suffer violence, …
Digitization project Digitization of the Drancy file and the lists of the Theresienstadt camp As part of its mandate, the ICRC has kept archives since its creation in 1863. They constitute the memory …
PAUL REUTER (1911-1990). © The Hague Academy of International Law. Courtesy of the Secretary General. International humanitarian law (IHL) is undoubtedly shaped by States and other armed actors. At …
Young girls in areas prone to tribal fighting in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea face many challenges. Access to an education is one of these challenges, as Sandra John, a student at Hulia …
The following is an open letter from Robert Mardini, the director-general of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), following the discovery in mid-January of a cyber-attack on ICRC …
Update: 24 June 2022 . In January, we determined that servers hosting personal data belonging to more than 515,000 people worldwide were hacked in a sophisticated cyber attack. We feel it is our …
This handbook is for military commanders and staffs working with other armed forces or non-state armed groups within the framework of partnered military operations (PMOs). Much of the guidance is …
This handbook is for military commanders and staffs working with other armed forces or non-state armed groups within the framework of partnered military operations (PMOs). Much of the guidance is …
This report presents research conducted between October and December 2020 that explored what men in South Sudan and the Central African Republic (CAR) understand by “sexual violence” and how it might …
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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.
