18-12-2014 Cairo (ICRC) – Today, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Egyptian Red Crescent, in cooperation with Egypt's Ministry of Health and Population, held a conference …
17-12-2014 Around the world, thousands of migrants are behind bars. Having already suffered many hardships on perilous journeys, migrants should not be subjected to administrative detention except as …
15-12-2014 Antananarivo (ICRC) – As it does every year just before the festive season, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is giving the inmates at Tsiafahy maximum security prison an …
14-12-2014 Juba / Geneva (ICRC/IFRC/SSRC) – It has been one year since the world's newest nation plunged into crisis. Millions of people have been affected and remain in serious need of basic help …
12-12-2014 As winter deepens, the ICRC is stepping up its activities in Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine to help people affected by the conflict. The organization had previously had to scale …
12-12-2014 In the days after Typhoon Hagupit (Ruby) hit central Philippines, the ICRC sent several teams into the area to assess the damage. They found some infrastructure and livelihoods damaged …
12-12-2014 Thirty-three surgeons from different parts of Libya have just concluded a two-day training course supported by the ICRC in surgery on weapon-wounded patients. A further 15 surgeons have …
08-12-2014 Manila / Geneva – December 8th, 2014. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is gearing up for a humanitarian relief effort in response to the impact of Typhoon Hagupit …
05-12-2014 N'Djamena (ICRC) – Forty-four years after the Red Cross of Chad was founded, Chad's National Assembly has passed legislation aimed at protecting the red cross and red crescent emblems in …
04-12-2014 Yerevan (ICRC) – Residents of the remote village of Movses, in the Tavush region along the international border with Azerbaijan, now have safer and easier access to clean drinking water …
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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.
