This publication has been updated and slightly restructured and now includes a number of treaties that have been adopted since its last update in 1996. This volume is a collection of treaties …
This brochure outlines the various situations that can lead to people becoming unaccounted for. It points to the international law standards intended to prevent such disappearances and recommends …
From January 2012 to December 2013, ICRC documented 1,809 incidents of assaults or threats against patients, health-care personnel, ambulances or medical facilities. Although it is probably only the …
Internal displacement, affecting tens of millions of people, is one of the most tragic consequences of armed conflict and other violence. This ICRC report highlights the reasons people are forced to …
In the last twenty years, ICRC surgical teams have treated more than 12,000 victims of anti-personnel mines. This in-depth film on surgery for mine-blast victims was shot in the ICRC hospital in …
This ICRC study is an extensive reference document on the impact of armed conflict on the lives of women. Taking as its premise the needs of women, e.g. physical safety, access to health care, food …
Every year, the widespread availability and misuse of weapons leads to the displacement, wounding, rape or death of hundreds of thousands of civilians. States, National Red Cross and Red Crescent …
Uncertainty over the fate of a loved one causes untold suffering in wartime. This film captures how the ICRC Central Tracing Agency, together with Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies all …
The most widely prevalent type of armed conflict today is non-international in nature. It involves hostilities between government armed forces and organized non-State armed groups or is carried on …
This publication looks at the ways in which women can be affected by conflict and the actions taken by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to take their specific needs into account. …
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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.
