02-10-2015 Manila (ICRC) – Over 30 surgeons, anaesthesiologists and physicians from private and government hospitals are participating in a three-day training course to enhance their capacity to …
02-10-2015 As the fighting continues in the city of Kunduz, the International Committee of the Red Cross is increasingly concerned about the welfare of civilians in the city and the lack of medical …
02-10-2015 Kiev (ICRC) – Today, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) held a round-table discussion with representatives of Ukrainian government institutions on the recovery, …
03-10-2015 Kabul/Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply shocked by the bombing of the MSF hospital in Kunduz, and strongly condemns such violence against …
05-10-2015 Juba, 5 October 2015 - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been forced to withdraw all its staff from a humanitarian compound in Leer County, Unity State after it was …
07-10-2015 Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said it would welcome all impartial investigations which could help to determine the facts behind the bombing of a …
07-10-2015 Kiev/Lugansk (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is scaling up its activities in Ukraine, in particular in the opposition-held territory of Lugansk Region, after …
08-10-2015 Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is calling on engineers, designers, the scientific and innovation community, persons with disabilities, humanitarians, …
16-10-2015 Jerusalem/Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross is increasingly concerned by the deterioration in the situation in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory. …
19-10-2015 Damascus (ICRC/SARC) – The Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), together with the United Nations, have delivered lifesaving medical …
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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.
