22-10-2015 Geneva / Sana'a – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply concerned about the humanitarian impact of increasingly intense fighting in the city of Taiz, where there …
28-10-2015 Islamabad/Kabul/Geneva (ICRC-IFRC) – Afghan and Pakistan Red Crescent Societies are helping people affected by Monday's M7.5 earthquake whose epicentre was in Jerm district in the Afghan …
29-10-2015 Kiev / Lugansk (ICRC) – Today, 20 detainees held in connection with the conflict in Ukraine were released with the participation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and …
30-10-2015 Photo: UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré (Geneva, 31 October 2015) The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, and the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross …
31-10-2015 Kiev/Severodonetsk (ICRC) – Huge blasts after an ammunition depot exploded in the town of Svatove, in the Lugansk region, have left at least eight people wounded and two dead. Many …
02-11-2015 Joint statement International Committee of the Red Cross, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Iran Red Crescent Society, Tehran. Tehran (ICRC) – Today the …
05-11-2015 Manila (ICRC) – A community-based water-supply system providing potable water to over 4,000 people, including displaced families, was officially inaugurated today in Barangay Taluksangay, …
05-11-2015 Beirut / Tyre – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) held a three-day course from 3 to 5 November 2015 on the management of emergency-room trauma at the Ragheb Harb hospital …
06-11-2015 Geneva / Bangui – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply concerned by intensifying violence in the Central African Republic . The organization calls upon all parties …
08-11-2015 Kiev / Donetsk – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) held a round-table discussion on 7 November in Donetsk with key stakeholders on searching for dead bodies and on …
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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.
