To secure the guarantees accorded to the victims of armed conflict, Article 90 of Protocol I of 8 June 1977 additional to the Geneva Conventions (Protocol I) provides for the establishment of …
International humanitarian law (IHL) is the set of rules designed to protect persons who are not, or no longer, participating in hostilities and to limit the methods and means of waging war. It also …
The United Nations had considered the idea of establishing a permanent international criminal court at various times since the end of the Second World War. In 1993 and 1994, it set up two ad hoc …
The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction is one of the instruments of international …
"I was fascinated that after so many years, somebody still wanted to know my story." It has been 17 years since Lola's husband went missing. When she was pregnant with their third baby, Lola's …
The ICRC, NRCS and NEFAD focus on Right to Know for this year's International Day of the Disappeared Kathmandu (ICRC/NRCS) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Nepal Red Cross …
Guidimakha is a region in southern Mauritania, bordered by Senegal and Mali. Like elsewhere on the continent, young people leave Guidimakha for other African countries or Europe. Sometimes their …
From 2007 to 2017, there were 786.071* cases of missing people in Brazil and 82.684 reports only in 2017. *Data from the Yearbook published by the Brazilian Public Safety Forum (FBSP) in 2017 and …
Since 2001, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission have collaborated on implementation of International Humanitarian Law …
Fourth Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty. Statement by Dr Helen Durham, the ICRC director of International Law and Policy Syria, Yemen, Iraq, South Sudan, Somalia and Ukraine are …
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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.
