In 2015, the ICRC has stepped up its efforts to help some of the many hundreds of thousands of people affected by the Lake Chad conflict who lack even the basic necessities of life. We are building …
Many people have gone missing during conflict and violence in Lebanon. Proper anthropological and archaeological analyses of their human remains is an essential step for the identification. Lebanese …
The new report, Civil legal issues related to the families of the missing in Nepal , commissioned by the ICRC, highlights the legal and administrative issues faced by the families of the missing. The …
15th Annual Regional Seminar on International Humanitarian Law 18 – 21 August 2015 OR Tambo Building, Pretoria Representatives from 16 Southern African countries gathered in South Africa from 18 to …
Extract from ICRC publication " International humanitarian law: answers to your questions " International humanitarian law (IHL) regulates relations between States, international organizations and …
Suffering does not change its face. It is as perennial as bloody human conflict. I saw that recently in Yemen. I met a man in the old city of Sana'a, the capital. A bomb had destroyed his home. And …
The lifeless body of a toddler found recently on a Turkish beach, whom the world would come to know as Aylan Kurdi, was from Kobane (Ain al-Arab), Syria. He is one of hundreds of Syrian and other …
We at the ICRC have been working across the front lines in Yemen to help hundreds of thousands of people in need, despite worsening security conditions, in what has become one of the world's most …
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The extreme hardship endured by millions of people inside Syria - and by the scores of refugees who have fled the country - continues to grow by the day. The shocking images of a drowned …
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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.
