16-09-2021 Geneva (ICRC) – The 16th meeting of the Coordination Mechanism seeking to clarify the fate and whereabouts of people missing in relation to 1990s and August 2008 armed conflicts took place …
08-09-2021 The following is a statement from Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, at the end of a four-day trip to Afghanistan. Kabul (ICRC) – The scars of war …
05-09-2021 Peter Maurer, the president of the ICRC, arrived in Afghanistan today for a three-day visit. While in the country, he plans to visit ICRC-supported medical facilities, the ICRC's …
30-08-2021 On the eve of the International Day of the Disappeared, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in collaboration with the Embassy of Switzerland in Lebanon, launched the …
30-08-2021 Yerevan (ICRC) – Today marks the International Day of the Disappeared to commemorate hundreds of thousands of people who are missing around the world as a result of armed conflicts, …
30-08-2021 Baku (ICRC) – Today marks the International Day of the Disappeared to commemorate hundreds of thousands of people who are missing around the world as a result of armed conflicts, violence, …
30-08-2021 More than 23 years since the armed conflict in Kosovo ended, the families of more than 1,600 missing persons are still waiting for answers about the fate and whereabouts of their loved …
30-08-2021 Today, on the international day of the missing, I want to invite everyone to take a moment and try to imagine the unimaginable. Imagine the pain of people who spend years, sometimes …
27-08-2021 Harare (ICRC) – As the world marks International Day of the Disappeared, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Regional Delegation in Southern Africa has unveiled a memorial …
24-08-2021 On the International Day of the Disappeared, we remember all the people who went missing during the many years of armed conflict in Iraq. Today, we stand with their families, whose pain …
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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.
