16-05-2021 Geneva (ICRC) – The populations in Gaza and Israel are facing the most intense cycle of hostilities in years. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is urging the parties to …
11-05-2021 Statement in the name of Fabrizio Carboni, Regional Director for the Near and Middle East, ICRC "The recent rockets in Israel and airstrikes in Gaza represent a dangerous escalation of the …
10-05-2021 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has donated personal protective equipment (PPE) and oxygen concentrators to Egypt’s Ministry of Health to support national efforts to …
08-05-2021 Jerusalem (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply worried about the recent spike of violent confrontations in Jerusalem. Last night our partners from the …
07-05-2021 Geneva (ICRC) - On the occasion of Mother's Day, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is launching a new campaign to highlight the courage of women living in countries in …
06-05-2021 Gaza (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Palestinian Ministry of Endowments and Religious affairs (Awqaf) and the Ministry of Health in Gaza have joined …
03-05-2021 Geneva (ICRC) – Health-care providers and patients have suffered through thousands of attacks on health-care systems in the roughly five years since the UN Security Council demanded an end …
30-04-2021 The Colombian Red Cross, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) reaffirm the importance of …
23-04-2021 Bogotá (ICRC) – The vice-president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Gilles Carbonnier, reaffirmed the organization's commitment to the people and communities of …
30-03-2021 Today, under the auspices of the Tripartite Commission, the remains of an Iraqi soldier gone missing during the 1990-1991 Gulf War were handed over from the State of Kuwait to the Republic …
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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.
