The Centre for Military and International Humanitarian Law (COMIHL) organized a regional course on the law of armed conflict at sea for military lawyers in collaboration with the International …
Khartoum – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is distributing Essential Household Items (EHIs) to those affected by the violence which began on 28 December 2019, around El Geneina, …
Addis Ababa (ICRC) – Millions of people in the Horn of Africa are trapped in near-constant crisis as the combination of droughts, floods, and violence force people from their homes and erode …
Imagine a medical facility with high traffic of 300 inbound patients each day, where the number of doctors and staff are disproportionate to the volume of patients. In addition, the country's …
This report provides an update on the 2016 report ' Translating the Kampala Convention into Practice: A Stocktaking Exercise '. It aims to capitalize on the momentum for engagement created by the …
Geneva/Ouagadougou (ICRC) – In view of the fresh outbreak of violence in Burkina Faso, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) urges all parties to the conflict and all weapon bearers to …
Geneva (ICRC) – Attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure in northwest Syria have spiked in the first weeks of 2020, killing scores of people and forcing more than 150,000 to flee their homes …
Twice a week the man would pay Yagana for sex. He only stopped when she became pregnant with his child. "I didn't see him again after that. He told me the child wasn't his and didn't offer me any …
The ICRC regional delegation for India, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives, in collaboration with the Centre for UN Peacekeeping (CUNPK) in New Delhi, organised an International Workshop on …
In 2019, the ICRC delivered humanitarian assistance to thousands of beneficiaries in communities affected by the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Our colleagues carried out activities related to …
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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.
