08-10-2024 Addis Ababa (ICRC) — Eighty percent of victims of unexploded ordnance assisted by the International Committee of the Red Cross in rural areas of northern Ethiopia have been children, …
06-10-2024 As we approach one year from the attacks of 7 October 2023, and the widespread escalation of hostilities that followed, people in the region continue to endure an unbearable toll of pain, …
05-10-2024 Geneva (ICRC) – Seventeen metric tons of urgently needed medical supplies have arrived in Beirut via air cargo from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). This shipment …
04-10-2024 Geneva (ICRC) – As violence intensifies across the Middle East, the region sits on the precipice of a region-wide armed conflict. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) …
27-09-2024 27 September 2024 New York – Brazil, China, France, Jordan, Kazakhstan, and South Africa today launched a global initiative to galvanize political commitment in support of international …
27-09-2024 Geneva (ICRC) - The 20th meeting of the Coordination Mechanism, seeking to clarify the fate and whereabouts of people missing in relation to the armed conflicts of the 1990s and August …
25-09-2024 In accordance with its humanitarian mandate and as a neutral and impartial intermediary, the ICRC is ready to carry out further forensic work on the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) with …
25-09-2024 Geneva (ICRC) — As civilian deaths and injuries continue to rise, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is urgently appealing for parties to the conflict to adhere to …
20-09-2024 Dakar (ICRC) – Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced in recent weeks as floods ravage several countries in West Africa. Torrential rains in Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria …
17-09-2024 Geneva (ICRC) – President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Mirjana Spoljaric met with authorities of the Russian Federation to address urgent topics relating to the …
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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.
