24-02-2023 International humanitarian law, also known as the rules of war, aims to protect people from the devastating effects of armed conflict. A 76-page book that was originally written in Arabic …
22-02-2023 Nairobi (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is calling on all those involved in the violence in Las Anod to guarantee safe and unimpeded access to people affected …
17-02-2023 Remarks by Fabrizio Carboni, ICRC Regional Director for the Near and Middle East, on the Türkiye-Syria earthquake, at the UN Office in Geneva Press briefing I have just returned from a …
17-02-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – An independent investigation by a consortium of news organizations (known as “Forbidden Stories”) led to the publication on 16 February 2023 of a number of articles in the …
16-02-2023 Geneva (ICRC) –The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on 17 February marks its 160th year of work to bring relief to millions of people adversely affected by armed conflict. …
15-02-2023 (Cairo, ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Egyptian Red Crescent Society (ERCS) signed on Monday the annual Operational Cooperation Agreement (OCA) that …
08-02-2023 Port-au-Prince (ICRC) – The below is a statement from Martin Schüepp, the director of operations for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), after a visit to Haiti that …
02-02-2023 Juba, South Sudan (ICRC) — In recent months, hospitals in South Sudan have been facing an influx of weapon-wounded patients due to renewed clashes across the country. As a result, the …
31-01-2023 An agreement between the ICRC and CRASSH at the University of Cambridge delivers a new research programme exploring digital and cyber security policy, ethics and regulation. The …
30-01-2023 The Pretoria delegation and DIRCO co-hosted a meeting of 37 countries from across the continent to discuss how to get all African states to join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear …
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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.
