In Peru 20,000 families are still waiting for news of their missing loved ones. Twenty thousand families sit suspended between life and death: unable to mourn or move forward until they know the fate …
Dignity of detainees must be at the heart of good prison design, promoting better mental health and more successful integration back into society, according to the new ICRC guidance launched at an …
Factsheet on the international institutions established to deal with international criminal justice. In particular, the following questions/topics are addressed: the Ad Hoc international criminal …
The International Conference on the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons ( CCW ) took place in New Dehli from 5 to 6 December 2017. The objectives of the conference were the universalisation …
In July 2018, Samir arrived at the emergency room of Rafik Hariri University Hospital (RHUH) with an unbearable abdominal pain. Unable to afford treatment, the Palestinian refugee from Syria, would …
Migration is a global and complex phenomenon. The causes behind migration are many and varied. Whatever the reasons for leaving their country, migrants can become vulnerable at different stages of …
Men make war; women live with the consequences. At least that is the way it is largely perceived. Women live and react to those consequences, but they are hardly passive victims. They grieve, they …
This booklet summarizes the achievements made in the ten years since the Convention on Cluster Munitions was adopted. It also outlines the remaining challenges and what needs to be done to attain key …
Since the first and only use of nuclear weapons in 1945, the international community has wrestled with the issue of how the law of war applies to such weapons. For decades the discourse about nuclear …
Experts delivered presentations on the latest lethal autonomous weapons systems and the threat of cyber warfare. A recent regional conference on contemporary warfare in Jakarta was attended by close …
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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.
