Speech given by Mr Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, at the launch of the Updated Commentary on the First Geneva Convention. Updated Commentary on the First …
By Helen Durham, director of international law and policy at the ICRC. Don't dismiss the law of war – it has never been better known by the public and the outrage expressed when it is breached has …
Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons Statement of the ICRC, read at the Meeting of Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, held in Geneva from 11-16 April. The International Committee of …
T-Hawk remotely piloted air system in Afghanistan. © U.S Army As rapid advances continue to be made in new and emerging technologies of warfare, notably those relying on information technology and …
Military lawyers from Asia and the Pacific recently attended a Regional Military Lawyers' Operational Law Course, conducted by the ICRC in partnership with the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law at …
Gorlovka, Victoria Ostrovskaya's hometown, was one of the main industrial centres in eastern Ukraine. But with the sudden outbreak of conflict in the country in April 2014, the inhabitants of …
What have we learnt over the past decades about the dissemination of international humanitarian law (IHL)? And what kind of innovations have the potential to make dissemination efforts more …
Ms Biljana Milosevic, head of delegation for the ICRC in Georgia, outlines the problems of persons missing as a result of armed conflict, and how the ICRC seeks to discover their fate and …
All the ICRC's international humanitarian law databases are now searchable via a single interface . IHL research can be daunting; the ever-increasing amount of data makes it difficult to navigate and …
The ICRC has distributed 16,000 food parcels and hygiene kits in southern Russia so far this year to people who fled the fighting in neighbouring Ukraine. We are carrying out these operations with …
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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.
