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 …
22-08-2021 Cairo (ICRC / ERC) – The Egyptian Red Crescent Society (ERCS), in cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), has started distributing 335 tons of food aid, 19 …
17-08-2021 The ICRC is relieved to see Kabul avoid what could have been devastating urban warfare, but we remain mindful of the thousands of civilians wounded and displaced in recent fighting in …
16-08-2021 Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has begun a second phase of forensic work to identify Argentine soldiers buried on the Falklands Islands (Malvinas). The …
16-08-2021 Port Moresby (ICRC) – The ICRC detention team participated in a conference organised by PNG Correctional Services (CS), this week 16 – 20 August in Port Moresby. The conference brought …
09-08-2021 Operational Update As fighting in Ethiopia's Tigray region and other areas in the north of the country forces more people to flee their homes, Ethiopian refugees in the camps in south-east …
30-07-2021 Gaza (ICRC) – A new study by the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza shows that 80% of Gaza’s population live much of their lives in the dark, with only 10-12 hours of …
21-07-2021 Document makes recommendations to authorities and Brazilian society Brasília (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) releases on Tuesday (6) the report "Still? This is …
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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.
