Maguindanao, Philippines. Since the fighting between government forces and armed groups erupted in March, Puya Bahal, 59, and his family have stayed together in this makeshift tent. “We fear being …
Autonomous weapons are an emotive subject, with the potential to change the whole nature of warfare. Could machines one day be able to carry out killing without human control and what should we do …
A summary of the ICRC's activities in South Sudan since the beginning of the emergency in mid-December 2013 to the end of February 2015. This month's theme: Providing food to the most vulnerable …
At the age of 56, Tatyana had to leave her house in Shakhtarsk, in Ukraine's Donetsk region. Fleeing from gunfire and shelling, she went to Krasnodar with her disabled husband. But it's hard to get …
Speech given by Ms Christine Beerli, Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross at the Fourth Moscow Conference on International Security on 16 April 2015 in Moscow,. Army General …
Over 100,000 people displaced by violence in north-east Nigeria will be receiving emergency aid from the ICRC this week. Some will already have received aid over the last three months. Others, …
"We don't have a lack of disasters in Africa." That was one observation made at the 4th Annual meeting of the Africa Society of Forensic Medicine, held in Nairobi, Kenya in March. That in part …
16-04-2015 Beirut (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), together with the Lebanese Red Cross (LRC), is organizing a special photo exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of …
1976. Wounded civilians receive treatment in a field hospital. “One day we entered an area of a village that was caught in the middle of very heavy and continuous crossfire and we evacuated three …
15-04-2015 Geneva/Sanaa (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been denied access to the town of Maareb in central Yemen, where a large number of people are in urgent need …
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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.
Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.
