Belgrade/Pristina/Geneva (ICRC) – 1,658 people who went missing in connection with the 1998–1999 armed conflict in Kosovo are still being sought by their families. In recent years, very little …
Sexual violence continues to be widespread in armed conflict and other situations of violence. As a response, the ICRC remains committed to strengthening its efforts to prevent sexual violence and …
Damascus/Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) strongly condemns an attack on Saturday against a humanitarian convoy on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria that wounded a …
Cluster munitions have been a persistent problem for decades. These weapons have killed or injured tens of thousands of civilians in war-affected countries. In May 2008, more than 100 States adopted …
The fourth Asia-Pacific Correctional Managers' Conference (APCM) was held from 16 to 18 May in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Attended by 28 correctional managers from across the region, the conference was …
Urban wars in Iraq, Syria and Yemen are amongst the deadliest conflicts of our time. People’s homes, their doorsteps, their streets, their schools and their hospitals are all part of the battlefield …
War is back in cities ... civilians are in the middle of it all once again. Antony Beevor, historian The wars decimating the ancient cities of Mosul, Taiz, and Aleppo have contributed to the greatest …
Red Cross and the Nobel Peace Prize No recipient has been awarded the Peace Prize as many times as the ICRC. In 1901, the first ever Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Henry Dunant, founder of the Red …
Experts from 21 countries deliberated upon operational aspects of the law of naval warfare and current issues relating to humanitarian action at sea during a regional workshop in Kuala Lumpur. …
From 18-24 April 2017 the ICRC convened professionals and policy makers in the humanitarian sector from across the world, for the 21st ICRC Course on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) for …
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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.
