15-09-2015 The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has forced many civilians to flee the areas where fighting is taking place and to seek refuge in more peaceful areas. With winter approaching, the ICRC and …
14-09-2015 Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross is hosting a two-day conference, bringing together prominent humanitarians and academics to reflect critically on the history …
13-09-2015 Statement by Nepal Red Cross Society, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) (Kathmandu) The Red Cross …
10-09-2015 Akkar, North Lebanon. The ICRC provided food and hygiene items to more than 2500 Lebanese and Syrian families. September, 2015. Ⓒ ICRC/Ghaith Tahtah The International Committee of the Red …
10-09-2015 Manila (ICRC) – Around 2,700 people fled their homes in Surigao del Sur, Eastern Mindanao, in the aftermath of armed violence last week. To support them, the International Committee of the …
03-09-2015 Kathmandu (ICRC/Nepal Red Cross Society) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Nepal Red Cross Society and National Network of Families of Disappeared and Missing Nepal …
02-09-2015 Geneva / Damascus – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says the civilian population in the city of Aleppo is undergoing enormous suffering because of deliberate cuts to …
02-09-2015 Geneva / Sana'a (ICRC) – Two staff members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have been shot and killed in Yemen. They were travelling with colleagues in a convoy …
01-09-2015 Manila (ICRC) – Over 60 years after ratifying the Geneva Conventions , the Philippines has achieved much progress in implementing international humanitarian law (IHL). The country is …
31-08-2015 Bogotá / Geneva (ICRC) – The ICRC's Colombia delegation has launched a campaign entitled "Human beings, inside and outside," promoting decent conditions in the country's prisons. The ICRC …
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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.
