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 …
29-03-2021 Joint statement from the Presidents of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent Society (SARC), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Federation of Red Cross and …
29-03-2021 The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer, called on the international community to come together to find a “new approach” and long-term solutions as he …
24-03-2021 The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement has today launched a new plan that aims to tackle “deep and pervasive” inequities in the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. …
24-03-2021 The organization presented its report on the humanitarian actions and challenges in Mexico and Central America, which helped benefit over 200,000 people directly and thousands more …
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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.
