21-09-2014 Senior military officers from 57 countries will participate in the Senior Workshop on International Rules Governing Military Operations (SWIRMO) 2014, to be held in Xi'an, China, from 22 …
23-09-2014 Geneva (ICRC) – "After 52 days of conflict, the Gaza Strip is a shambles," said Robert Mardini, the head of operations for the Near and Middle East at the International Committee of the …
23-09-2014 Nairobi (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), assisted by the Somali Red Crescent Society, just completed a distribution of food to over 36,000 displaced people in …
24-09-2014 Canberra (ICRC) – A new publication promoting military practice that better protects health-care workers and patients in armed conflict and emergencies will be launched at a panel event …
24-09-2014 Geneva (ICRC) – Over 50 States have now ratified the Arms Trade Treaty regulating international transfers of conventional weapons, meaning it will enter into force in three months. With …
24-09-2014 Geneva/New York (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) are seeking stronger action by States to protect people providing or …
26-09-2014 The International Committee of the Red Cross is appealing to all parties involved in the Syria and Iraq conflicts to uphold the fundamental principle of human dignity, to spare the …
30-09-2014 Members of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) and of the High Council for the Unity of Azawad (HCUA) are attending an ICRC course on international humanitarian law …
02-10-2014 Kiev/Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply distressed by the killing of one of its staff, Laurent DuPasquier, in Donetsk today. The 38-year-old …
02-10-2014 Cairo (ICRC) –Twenty members of the Salafi Call, a clerical group, recently took part in a round table jointly organized by the group and the International Committee of the Red Cross …
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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.
