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All the ICRC's international humanitarian law databases are now searchable via a single interface . IHL research can be daunting; the ever-increasing amount of data makes it difficult to navigate and …
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Somalia: Towards self-reliance with farming cooperatives
In a small rural village near Beletweyne, Somalia, families rely on a cooperative project to grow and harvest sorghum and sesame through the use of community-owned farm equipment. Sharing such vital …
Honduras: Art helps migrants and families
Every year, tens of thousands of people travel north through Central America in search of a better life. Many are killed or injured. We're helping the families of missing migrants and supporting …
Russian Federation: Fighting Star Wars by the rules
Every year, the Martens Moot Court Competition on International Humanitarian Law brings together the best law students, if not from the entire universe then at least from the universities of the CIS …
Georgia: Efforts to clarify the fate of missing persons
Ms Biljana Milosevic, head of delegation for the ICRC in Georgia, outlines the problems of persons missing as a result of armed conflict, and how the ICRC seeks to discover their fate and …
Enabling people with disabilities in 2015: Facts and figures
The ICRC helps people with disabilities through our physical rehabilitation programme and the ICRC Special Fund for the Disabled. The people we serve include victims of armed conflict, of other …
Indonesia: Refreshing humanitarian action
A conference on "Refreshing Humanitarian Action" took place in Jakarta, Indonesia, at the end of February. The event was an opportunity for policy makers and humanitarians to look at how humanitarian …
Cambodia: Physical rehabilitation programme in Battambang gets a new home
After 25 years of sharing offices with the Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation's physical rehabilitation centre in Battambang, the ICRC's physical rehabilitation programme …
World Humanitarian Summit: ICRC's comment on the UN Secretary General's Report
In February 2016, the United Nations Secretary General released his Report on the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS). The report calls on States, United Nations agencies, civil society and all parties …
Kenya / Tanzania / Djibouti: Refugees made 241,000 calls to families in 2015
In 2015 the ICRC continued to help hundreds of thousands of people reconnect with their families following refugee influx in Tanzania and Djibouti. We provided economic support to people directly or …
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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.
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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.
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Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.