25th session, Human Rights Council With the adoption of the Genocide Convention in 1948 and, a year later, of the four Geneva Conventions, the international community unequivocally stated its intent …
25th session, Human Rights Council The ICRC would like to address the impact of armed conflict on children's access to education and the specific measures that can be taken to improve the protection …
On International Women's Day, the ICRC is drawing attention to the horror of sexual violence, which is amplified during times of conflict. Many suffer in silence. In this video, our deputy director …
Navi Pillay, High Commissioner on Human Rights, met with women victims of sexual violence when she sat as a judge on the Rwandan tribunal. In this video, she speaks of the importance of truly …
It might be supposed that the plague has been eradicated from the planet, but it is still rife in countries like the Democratic Republic of the Congo or Madagascar. This 10-minute film shows the …
Franco-Prussian war, 1870-1871. A painting of Bazeilles, a village in France, after violent clashes there between French and Bavarian soldiers. In the foreground, among the victims, are a woman and …
25th session, Human Rights Council The ICRC acknowledges that migration is a complex phenomenon that concerns millions of people around the world. Although much attention has been paid to this issue …
In this video Safina Bavuga, a Congolese refugee in Kenya, describes the humanitarian assistance he has received since arriving in Kakuma camp. He proposes some improvements that could be made and …
After nearly half a century of conflict, the villagers living on the banks of the Rio Caguan in southern Colombia are cut off from basic health care. Diseases which should be minor rapidly become …
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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.
