21-03-2023 Nairobi (ICRC) – Since violence erupted in Las Anod, Sool region, at the beginning of February, at least 150 people have been killed and hundreds more wounded. It’s estimated that more …
24-03-2023 As Muslims around the world usher in the holy month of Ramadan, detainees in Somalia will also be able to join in the spirit of the occasion. Close to 4,000 detainees across 12 places of …
03-04-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – On the occasion of the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action on 4 April, Erik Tollefsen, the head of the weapons contamination unit for the …
16-04-2023 Khartoum (ICRC) – As clashes continue in Khartoum and other Sudanese cities, heavy gunfire and blasts are happening in the proximity of densely populated residential areas and civilian …
17-04-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – Over the last four days, 973 former detainees held in relation to the conflict in Yemen were repatriated to Yemen and Saudi Arabia by the International Committee of the Red …
19-04-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is again calling for immediate humanitarian access as fighting continues to rage in Sudan. Fierce clashes continued …
20-04-2023 Juba, South Sudan (ICRC) - Forty people, most of them children, who spent months separated from their families, were handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on …
21-04-2023 Washington, D.C. (ICRC) – A statement by Patrick Hamilton, the International Committee of the Red Cross’ head of delegation for the United States and Canada, following a visit to the …
21-04-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – A statement from Mirjana Spoljaric, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross: “For the last week the world has watched in horror at the appalling …
25-04-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – The reported temporary ceasefire in Sudan is a potential lifesaver for civilians who have been trapped in their homes without the ability to access food, clean water, and …
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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.
