Day after day, in every community we reach, we come across something very valuable, a special trait we see in health-care workers, forensic personnel, community leaders, teachers and all the people …
The history of warfare is full of instances of sieges being used as a method of warfare. Some of them are notorious for their exceedingly high death tolls. Contemporary conflicts have again drawn the …
As digital technologies take center stage in contemporary armed conflicts, the Brussels Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) engages with key EU partners advocating for …
Legislation for common-law States on the 1980 Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have …
Alhaji Bukar Ali hadn’t seen his family in close to a decade due to armed conflict. Then, a team of Red Cross volunteers in Cameroon and Nigeria helped not just to find his relatives but to reunite …
The recent hostilities in Israel and Gaza have had an immense impact on civilians. People have been killed, injured and taken hostage. Families have lost homes and loved ones. With no end in sight, …
With the escalation of violence in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, there has been a proliferation of dehumanizing language and of false and misleading information about the ICRC and our work in the …
For 30 years, Iakob Buadze’s life revolved around one goal – to find his brother, Merab, who had disappeared after joining the armed conflict in Abkhazia in the spring of 1993. A resident of …
Speech given by Mirjana Spoljaric, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, in Amman. Call for action: urgent humanitarian response in Gaza Excellencies, ministers, colleagues I …
In situations of armed conflict, other situations of violence, disasters and in the context of migration, countless families become separated, many people go missing and bodies of the deceased remain …
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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.
