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 …
09-03-2015 Bamako / Geneva (ICRC) –Tensions remain acute in northern Mali, where attacks occurred in Kidal once again this past weekend. There was violence in the capital Bamako as well. The …
06-03-2015 Colombo (ICRC) – A task force that will include representatives of Sri Lankan government ministries was set up to analyse the causes of overcrowding and to recommend and implement measures …
05-03-2015 Unaccompanied boys and girls are among the hundreds of thousands of people who have been fleeing continuing violence, from South Sudan into neighbouring Ethiopia, Uganda, Sudan and Kenya. …
04-03-2015 The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is deeply concerned about the recent spate of attacks against its volunteers and staff. In the last month alone, two volunteers and …
03-03-2015 Manila (ICRC) – Thousands of people have fled their homes as fighting between government security forces and armed groups escalates in Maguindanao province, in central Mindanao. The number …
27-02-2015 Geneva / Kiev / Moscow (ICRC) – ICRC President Peter Maurer today completed high-level talks in Moscow and Kiev, in which he focused on the severe humanitarian crisis in eastern Ukraine …
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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.
