10-04-2016 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has today facilitated the handover, between the sides, of the bodies of those killed in action following the recent escalation of the …
13-04-2016 Denpasar – Chiefs and deputy chiefs of the Gegana police force, representing headquarters and 27 provinces, are gathering to discuss international human rights standards for policing. The …
14-04-2016 Kiev/Donetsk/Lugansk (ICRC) – Two years on from the start of the conflict , and despite over a year having passed since an official ceasefire agreement was signed in Minsk, worsening …
14-04-2016 Amman (ICRC) – With the Syrian crisis showing no signs of abating, thousands of people continue to gather at the Hadalat and Rukban crossing points along Jordan's north-eastern border, …
15-04-2016 Around 13,000 people in Maguindanao province in central Mindanao who have been displaced for over two months, owing to the armed clashes between government forces and the Bangsamoro …
15-04-2016 Nairobi/Geneva - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Somali Red Crescent Society have begun distributing rice, beans and cereals to nearly 60,000 people affected by …
15-04-2016 Monrovia (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has given a four-day training course in international humanitarian law (IHL) to 24 junior and senior Liberian army …
18-04-2016 Geneva/Bamako (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confirms that it has had no contact since Saturday with three of its staff members who were on assignment in …
20-04-2016 Sarajevo (ICRC/Red Cross Society of Bosnia and Herzegovina) – The annual European Restoring Family Links conference started today in Sarajevo. The International Federation of Red Cross and …
20-04-2016 Geneva (ICRC) – The body of an Armenian soldier was returned today in an operation carried out under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The handover took …
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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.
