18-04-2016 Geneva/Bamako (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confirms that it has had no contact since Saturday with three of its staff members who were on assignment in …
The Beddawi camp for Palestinian refugees in northern Lebanon is one of the country's largest, with a population of 30,000, and the war in Syria has brought a surge in numbers. The area is one of …
In 2015, the ICRC Pretoria Regional Delegation assisted National Red Cross Societies to provide vulnerable migrants with a phone service enabling them to establish and maintain contact with their …
ICRC operations continued apace throughout the first quarter of 2016, despite an upsurge in the fighting, torrential rain and earthquakes. Often working with Afghan Red Crescent staff and volunteers, …
An unwanted pregnancy. Exposure to HIV. Physical pain. Psychological scarring. The risk of social isolation. Lower likelihood of marriage. Perhaps worst of all, forced marriage with the perpetrator. …
15-04-2016 Monrovia (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has given a four-day training course in international humanitarian law (IHL) to 24 junior and senior Liberian army …
What have we learnt over the past decades about the dissemination of international humanitarian law (IHL)? And what kind of innovations have the potential to make dissemination efforts more …
15-04-2016 Nairobi/Geneva - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Somali Red Crescent Society have begun distributing rice, beans and cereals to nearly 60,000 people affected by …
15-04-2016 Around 13,000 people in Maguindanao province in central Mindanao who have been displaced for over two months, owing to the armed clashes between government forces and the Bangsamoro …
Gorlovka, Victoria Ostrovskaya's hometown, was one of the main industrial centres in eastern Ukraine. But with the sudden outbreak of conflict in the country in April 2014, the inhabitants of …
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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.
