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 …
26-02-2015 Manila (ICRC) – Around 4,000 families displaced by the recent fighting between armed groups in central Mindanao are being assisted by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) …
25-02-2015 Niamey (ICRC) – The conflict which broke out several months ago in north-eastern Nigeria has spilled over the border into neighbouring Niger. Since 6 February several areas in the Diffa …
24-02-2015 The new Head of the ICRC delegation to the African Union, Felipe Donoso, presented his letter of credence to the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, on …
23-02-2015 Expanding conflict Baghdad / Geneva (ICRC) – As a result of the recent widening of the conflict in Iraq, many more people – numbering in the hundreds of thousands – have been affected. The …
22-02-2015 This weekend, the ICRC delivered food, medical supplies and other essential items to the roughly 5,000 people trapped in the town of Debaltseve by heavy fighting over the past week. The …
20-02-2015 Tehran (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the National Committee of Humanitarian Law of Iran (NCHL) have together hosted a series of events on prohibiting 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.
