Mellit locality is a flat and beautiful town dominated by green vegetation. It is so beautiful that a poem was composed by the great Sudanese poet, Mohammed Saeed Al Abasi, to capture its wonderful …
UNESCO partnered with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) co-organized the ICRC's 8th Regional Conference on International Humanitarian Law in Asia and Pacific, with the support of …
At first glance, the small village of Aita, in the central part of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, seems idyllic, but a deeper look reveals a sad history. Nestled between the Pacific Ocean and …
Viktor and his wife have not seen their children and grandchildren for more than six months now. They live only a few kilometres away from one another in the Lugansk/Luhansk region but are 100 km …
UNGA74 High-Level Side Event on "Advancing Digital Trust, Security and Cooperation", 23 September 2019 The digital space is the next frontier in war, and like in physical war, trust and truth will be …
Pretoria (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) welcomes southern African states’ collective commitment to contribute to a global ban on nuclear weapons by signing and fully …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) together with National Judicial Academy (NJA) of Nepal organised the 2nd South Asian Expert Exchange on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) with …
Remarks to UN General Assembly High-Level Side Event on "Counter-terrorism Frameworks and Sanctions Regimes: Safeguarding Humanitarian Space" As delivered by ICRC President Peter Maurer First, we …
“Every time the doorbell rings, I think it’s him, my father.” This is how Elnara Elekberova remembers her father who has been missing for 27 years now. Her mother, Shalala Mammadova, says that as a …
The ICRC regional delegation to Indonesia and Timor Leste further strengthened its well- established collaborations with religious circles through the fifth annual certificate course on International …
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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.
