26-08-2015 Beirut / Tyre (ICRC) – Clashes in Ein el-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon's southern district of Saida have been among the fiercest in recent years and resulted in many …
25-08-2015 Sana'a/Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) strongly condemns an attack which has taken place on its offices in the city of Aden in Yemen. Unidentified …
24-08-2015 Geneva/Cancun, Mexico - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has voiced concern that many countries are still involved in illegal arms transfers despite having committed …
11-08-2015 Yangon / Geneva, 11 August 2015 – Today the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) launched an emergency appeal to support flood-stricken communities in …
11-08-2015 The President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer, has said he is appalled by the suffering he has witnessed in Yemen. On a three-day visit to the country, …
06-08-2015 6 August 2015, Dhaka - Experienced media professionals covering diplomatic assignments in Bangladesh came together to discuss the challenges for their profession's ethics and principles, …
06-08-2015 6 August 2015, Hiroshima/ Geneva (IFRC/ICRC) – Seventy years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japanese Red Cross Society hospitals are still treating thousands of …
06-08-2015 Geneva/Sana'a - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has today facilitated the transfer of seven released prisoners from Aden to Sana'a. "The ICRC was directly approached by …
31-07-2015 Beirut (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Lebanese University signed a partnership agreement today to launch the new Faculty of Medical Sciences module on …
28-07-2015 The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement condemns in the strongest possible terms the attack on a Yemeni Red Crescent Society (YRCS) ambulance in the city of Taiz on Thursday …
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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.
