24-03-2016 PORT MORESBY – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is concerned by the ongoing humanitarian situation in Tari District, Hela Province, where hundreds of people have been …
24-03-2016 Baghdad/Geneva (ICRC) - International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) staff distributed aid today to more than 12,000 displaced people surviving in desperate conditions in west Ramadi, …
25-03-2016 Belgrade/Pristina (ICRC) – The working group on persons unaccounted for in connection with events in Kosovo in 1998 and 1999 held its 42nd session in Belgrade today. Officials from …
29-03-2016 Manila (ICRC) – The largest mass screening for tuberculosis (TB) in the country is being held for about 5,700 inmates in New Bilibid Prison (NBP), Muntinlupa City, as part of efforts to …
01-04-2016 Port-au-Prince (ICRC) - In cooperation with the national prison service, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has recently finished building a wing for juvenile detainees at …
03-04-2016 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is concerned about the humanitarian impact of fighting along the line of contact in Nagorno-Karabakh, which seriously deteriorated on 2 …
06-04-2016 Kiev (ICRC) – Intensified shelling in eastern Ukraine is compounding the hardship of displaced and local people living in the vicinity of the line of contact. In particular, repairs to a …
07-04-2016 Amman (ICRC) – The third regional conference on health care in detention organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in cooperation with Jordan's Public Security …
07-04-2016 Beirut (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is launching an interactive multimedia exhibition today, entitled Men: Portraits of a Journey, at the Minus 1 venue in …
08-04-2016 The remains of 12 people who went missing in connection with the 1992–93 armed conflict in Abkhazia were handed over to their families today, 8 April 2016. This took place within the …
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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.
