20-06-2016 PORT MORESBY (ICRC) – It is vital that Papua New Guinean soldiers have a solid understanding of international humanitarian law (IHL) before they are deployed as UN Peacekeepers, said Lt …
23-06-2016 Abuja (ICRC) – A three-day workshop convened to foster the exchange of knowledge and research on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) ended today at Barcelona Hotel in Abuja. More than 60 …
25-06-2016 Khartoum (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has postponed an operation scheduled for 23 and 24 June, to transfer detainees held by the Sudan People's Liberation …
25-06-2016 Geneva, Juba (ICRC) - Renewed clashes in and around Wau, in the northwest of South Sudan, have forced thousands of civilians to flee in fear. The International Committee of the Red Cross …
28-06-2016 Abuja (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are set to begin a four-day meeting on the implementation of …
29-06-2016 The jury of the sixth edition of the ICRC's Humanitarian Visa d'Or has unanimously awarded the photojournalism prize to Juan Arredondo for his work entitled "Born into conflict: child …
01-07-2016 Beirut (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross has begun collecting Biological Reference Samples (BRS) from the families of people who went missing during the Lebanese civil …
04-07-2016 Geneva (ICRC) - The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said that suffering in Syria and Iraq has reached 'unprecedented levels' and that many people, in …
08-07-2016 Kiev (ICRC) – Ongoing shelling in the Gorlovka area has seriously damaged water infrastructure critical to the livelihoods of more than 2 million people on both sides of the contact line. …
12-07-2016 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) remains extremely concerned about the humanitarian situation after several days of armed clashes in Juba, South Sudan. We are …
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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.
