A surge in arrivals of Burundian refugees in reception centres near the Rwanda-Burundi border prompted the Rwandan government in April to open a new refugee camp in Mahama, Eastern Province. A major …
With no let-up in the crisis, people continue to seek safety by crossing from Syria to Jordan. The majority enter Jordan through the country's north-eastern border area, where the scorching summer …
Informal Meeting on strengthening compliance with International Humanitarian Law Friday, 13 July 2012, Geneva, Switzerland Guidance Document International Humanitarian Law (IHL) is a set of rules …
By Dominik Stillhart, director of operations There is something quietly dreadful about cemeteries in which all the graves are uniform. Absence of variety among the tombstones sends a message to the …
When a hospital in Kodok, South Sudan was caught in the crossfire between the conflict's two warring parties, doctors were forced to evacuate. Two people died as a direct result of fighting, but 11 …
This page highlights the BBC's coverage of recent ICRC distributions of food and essential household items in Udier, South Sudan. View the photo gallery on our distribution operations in Udier on the …
Srebrenica 1995 - 2015 I wish Finally To lay down in the grave The missing grave Next to my child The missing child To warm up his hands. …
Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1 July 1995. In the days after the fall of Srebrenica, those who had fled the town started to arrive in Tuzla. During the first two weeks, ICRC staff took personal risks to …
10-07-2015 Geneva/Juba - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply concerned about the deaths in South Sudan of more than a dozen people following clashes that forced doctors and …
Technological advances in weaponry mean that decisions about the use of force on the battlefield could increasingly be taken by machines operating without human intervention. A recent event in …
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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.
