25-03-2015 With heavy fighting continuing to tear apart Syria and Iraq, and many communities still recovering from conflicts in Lebanon, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the region's …
24-03-2015 Kuala Lumpur / Geneva (ICRC) – The Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) – the newest addition to international humanitarian law (IHL) – is the focus of a regional conference being held in Kuala Lumpur …
22-03-2015 The second regional conference on health care in detention organized by the ICRC started today in Amman, attended by representatives of medical associations from nine Middle Eastern and …
20-03-2015 The Ebola epidemic in West Africa, which has affected thousands of people and left deep scars on whole communities and countries, was confirmed one year ago. The International Red Cross …
19-03-2015 Peshawar (ICRC) – Handling the dead with respect and dignity was the theme of a five-day course run by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which drew to a close today in …
18-03-2015 Khartoum (ICRC) – Today the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is asking donors for an additional 25 million Swiss francs (about 26 million dollars), in addition to the five …
16-03-2015 Kathmandu (ICRC) – A handbook for parliamentarians and other civilian authorities will be presented at a ceremony in Kathmandu tomorrow. It is written in both Nepali and English. Together …
11-03-2015 Geneva / Bogotá (ICRC) – Colombians are still suffering the consequences of the conflict and other major violence on a daily basis. That was the message from the ICRC's delegation in …
11-03-2015 Port Moresby (ICRC) – The Southern Highlands Provincial Government, the Provincial Health Authority and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) signed a memorandum of …
10-03-2015 Violence in Nigeria is not only claiming lives and forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes in the country itself; it is spilling over into neighbouring Chad, Niger 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.
