Tokyo (ICRC) – The United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, which has been held every five years since 1995, was organized this year in Kyoto, Japan, from 7 to 12 March. …
The ICRC estimates that between 60 and 80 million people live under the exclusive control of non-State armed groups, and many more in areas in which non-States armed groups operate. Equitable access …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is alarmed by increasing numbers of fatalities and people injured or detained in a context of continuing violence and growing humanitarian …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) organized a series of basic first-aid training sessions for nearly 100 Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) personnel – the first responders to any …
In times of war, it is essential that all parties ensure the continuous supply of a sufficient quantity of potable water, as well as other essential basic supplies to meet the daily needs of the …
Geneva (ICRC) -- The newly appointed ICRC Envoy on Missing Persons in the Caucasus, Mr Daniel Mac Sweeney, the first person to hold such a position at the International Committee of the Red Cross, …
Suva, Fiji (ICRC) – Eighteen police officers from the Fiji Police Force attended a pre-deployment briefing session to South Sudan facilitated by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in …
A reduction in the humanitarian consequences of armed conflict and violence would have been a positive start to 2021. Sadly, the opposite was true. There are at least five ongoing non-international …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been working tirelessly to address the issue of violence against health-care workers, health-care facilities, medical transport and patients in …
Over 2,300 people, both civilians and military personnel, are still missing in Georgia since the armed conflicts of 1990s and August 2008. Meanwhile, their families have been spending years in …
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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.
