Nineteen newly recruited officers of the Judge Advocate General Service (JAGS), the legal counsels of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), underwent a three-week training on international …
Civilian populations are often deprived of basic necessities in war. In order to carry out their tasks, humanitarian organizations must be granted rapid and unimpeded access to the people affected. …
Geneva (ICRC) – Teams from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Friday began carrying out a multi-day operation to facilitate the release and transfer of hostages held in Gaza and …
In situations of armed conflict and other violence, disasters, and migration, people go missing. Families are separated, and dead bodies may never be identified and returned home. The effects of this …
Geneva (ICRC) – Mirjana Spoljaric, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, will meet again with families of hostages today at the ICRC’s headquarters in Geneva. President …
The war in Colombia isn’t over, it’s simply changed: armed conflicts now dominate life here in the remotest regions of the country. Time and time again we see with our own eyes violations of …
Speech of Balthasar Staehelin, the personal envoy of the ICRC president to China and head of the Regional Delegation for East Asia, for the Forum on Digital Poverty Reduction and Charity, World …
The restorative project supporting families mourning loved ones who disappeared during the violence period (1980-2000) in Peru. When a person goes missing, their loved ones often carry a photograph …
A speech given by Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, at the international humanitarian conference for the people of Gaza held in Paris. The suffering we …
According to international humanitarian law (IHL), health establishments and units, including hospitals, should not be attacked. This protection extends to the wounded and sick as well as to medical …
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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.
