The Rashtriya Raksha University (RRU) in Gujarat — an institution of national importance in India — and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Regional Delegation in New Delhi on 10 …
Since 2014, the Lake Chad crisis has been spreading to the Far North Region of Cameroon, whose inhabitants have mostly fled inland in their hundreds of thousands to escape the appalling armed …
Kabul, November 2020 — On a crisp, blue-skied November morning, the Ali Abad Orthopaedic Centre in Kabul – a sprawling compound catering to the needs of some of the most disadvantaged people in …
This October, TEDxIslamabad (independently organized by TED Talks) held a virtual event supported by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The talks focused on the power of empathy and …
On 6-7 November 2020, the ICRC mission in Seoul attended and participated in the 15th Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperity (“Jeju Forum”) on “Reinventing Multilateral Cooperation: Pandemic and Humane …
On 24 October 2020, the ICRC Mission in Seoul – in collaboration with the Korean Bar Association (KBA) – coordinated the final round of the 12th National IHL Moot Court Competition in the Republic of …
International humanitarian law (IHL) prohibits all forms of sexual violence in situations of armed conflict, whether international (IAC) or non-international (NIAC). Serious violations of IHL, …
In mid-November, after the first week of clashes in northern Ethiopia, an ICRC team traveled to North Amhara and West Tigray. In this account, Wilson Mondal, field team leader, describes what they …
The Road Map - two years later In July 2018, the ICRC officially launched its five-year strategy pertaining to 10,281 persons still missing as a consequence of the armed conflicts in the Western …
The ICRC Belgrade Regional Delegation recently donated a vehicle to the Belgrade Delegation to the Working Group (WG) on the Missing in Relation to the Events in Kosovo. The donation is aimed at …
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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.
