ICRC multimedia exhibition featuring at international photographic festival in Australia shares stories of resilience amid warfare in the remote peaks and valleys of Papua New Guinea's highlands. …
Colombo (ICRC) – The latest edition of the International Review of the Red Cross , titled The Missing , was launched during an event organized by the Colombo delegation of the ICRC on 29 March. In …
States and the international community should empower women living through armed conflict to enable them to deal with the realities of the conflict. This call was made by panelists and participants …
Debates about the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) have raised a number of questions with regard to the interpretation of some of its provisions. The ICRC is pleased to make …
These guidelines have been produced to help the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement better manage the risks associated with weapon contamination resulting from conventional weapons …
Nobody knows just how many children are fighting or caught up in armed conflicts around the world. But one thing is certain: they have been denied their right to an education and deprived of a …
Hundreds of people died when intercommunity violence broke out in December 2018 in Yumbi, Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the United Nations. Four months later, people are struggling to …
An Act to give effect to the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. ADVISORY SERVICE ON INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW ____________________________________ MODEL LAW FOR THE TREATY ON …
On 23 March 2019, the small village of Ogossagou in Central Mali looked like the apocalypse and seemed frozen in time. The wind has covered everything in a layer of red dust: burnt-out huts and farm …
In 2018, the ICRC continued its activities in Azerbaijan delivering humanitarian assistance to affected population in relation to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Thousands benefited from humanitarian …
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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.
