Everyday activities come with life-changing risk
Tetiana, a 64 year-old from Donetsk, stepped on an anti-personnel mine while gardening in Gornyak settlement in the Kuybyshevskiy district of Donetsk, changing her life in an instant. "My mother …
Tetiana, a 64 year-old from Donetsk, stepped on an anti-personnel mine while gardening in Gornyak settlement in the Kuybyshevskiy district of Donetsk, changing her life in an instant. "My mother …
The ICRC’s report on ‘Detention by Non-State Armed Groups: Obligations Under International Humanitarian Law and Examples of How to Implement Them’. Detention – by states and non-state armed groups …
Sunday, 2 April, marks the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) . The treaty seeks to reduce the human suffering caused by insufficient controls over the international …
The past year of international armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine has caused significant displacement, innumerable civilian deaths and injuries, and devastating damage to civilian …
The confluence of climate change, environmental degradation, and armed conflict presents unique challenges to vulnerable populations, such as refugees and internally displaced persons, who are …
What does IHL say about occupation law and when is a territory considered occupied? The numerous rules of international humanitarian law (IHL) that seek to protect civilians, most prominently in the …
The second edition of the European Humanitarian Forum was held in Brussels, Belgium, on 20 and 21 March 2023. The conference is jointly organized by the European Commission (DG ECHO, …
The state of the Colombian prison system continued to put the fundamental rights of people deprived of their liberty at risk. Although overcrowding in state prisons has decreased substantially since …
Kyiv (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross delivered much-needed humanitarian assistance to Kostiantynivka and Chasiv Yar, two locations close to Bakhmut, where the fighting has been …
In Colombia, armed conflict and violence continues to have a deep impact on the civilian population. Many civilians have been wounded, killed or gone missing; relatives have been separated from their …
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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.