Cairo (ERC, ICRC) – In order to continue the joint humanitarian response and to mark the cooperation between the two institutions, the Egyptian Red Crescent Society (ERC) and the International …
The main purpose of the study is to draw attention to the key role that IHL plays in addressing displacement and to influence law and policymaking among States and international and multilateral …
Fact sheet describing the role that National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies can play with regard to the national implementation of international humanitarian law. ADVISORY SERVICE ON IHL RED …
Appeal on nuclear weapons delivered at the Council of Delegates of the Red Cross and Red Crescent on 8 December 2019 by Haruka Adachi of the Japanese Red Cross Youth. Seventy four years after the …
The ICRC and the Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) jointly distributed 1,167 essential household items to people affected by ethnic violence in Gondar town and its environs in Amhara Region in …
Opening remarks by Peter Maurer Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I warmly thank Austria for organizing this side-event and for inviting me to open the discussion. I also thank the 27 States and …
Kuala Lumpur (ICRC) – Six pieces of humanitarian reporting have been selected as winning entries for the Young Humanitarian Writers Competition 2019. This year, more than 160 entries were received …
Bangladesh National IHL Committee (NIHLC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) recently joined hands to organize a meeting in Dhaka for the National IHL Committees of Asia. The …
In its capacity as a neutral intermediary, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) facilitated on 29.01 the transfer of a Saudi detainee from Sana’a to Riyadh. The next day on 30.01, …
Geneva/Sanaa (ICRC) – Today, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) facilitated the repatriation of six Saudi detainees from Yemen to Saudi Arabia following an agreement between the …
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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.
