The hot summer days are especially tense for farmers living in the Israeli towns around the Gaza Strip. The cause of their troubles: incendiary balloons. By: Shay Davidovich These devices, launched …
Fifth Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty Remarks by the ICRC Vice President In 2013, the Arms Trade Treaty became the first international legal instrument to link arms transfer …
The International Committee of the Red Cross employs close to 18,000 people in over 90 countries. These humanitarians face unprecedented challenges as they work in difficult circumstances and in …
Beijing (ICRC) – A high-level international seminar started today in Beijing to mark the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions , a set of rules that establish minimum standards of humanity that …
The increasing use of anti-personnel mines of an improvised nature in recent conflicts has resulted in rising numbers of civilian casualties in many contexts. These mines have been referred to as …
Amman, Jordan (ICRC) – A two-day meeting to discuss how to improve the search for missing people , including victims of enforced disappearance, began today at the Dead Sea in Jordan with the …
The International Committee of the Red Cross is proud to organize for the third time a writing competition in Arabic to engage the Arabic speaking scholars on relevant IHL discussions and to provide …
In 2019, Libya entered its eighth year of insecurity and protracted conflict. Its economy is in crisis, basic infrastructure is damaged, security threats and severe shortages of cash liquidity have …
Baghdad (ICRC) – On 29 August, the Prime Minister’s Office and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) jointly hosted a homage to missing people and their families in Iraq at the …
As harsh as it may sound, what do you think is "better"? Being killed by a human being or by a robot? If international humanitarian law (IHL) applies to humans and they are obliged to respect it, …
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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.
