15-12-2020 One month after ceasefire deal, deep humanitarian needs persist One month after a ceasefire deal in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict came into effect, hundreds of thousands of people remain …
10-12-2020 ICRC plants saplings in the memory of those who went missing during the conflicts in former Yugoslavia during 1990s Belgrade (ICRC) – To mark Human Rights Day, the International Committee …
07-12-2020 Gaza City (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Palestinian Ministry of Waqf and Religious Affairs in Gaza have joined forces in a campaign to convince …
23-11-2020 Addis Ababa (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has not received 858 members of the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) as it was reported. However, the ICRC …
19-11-2020 Abuja/Geneva- The first physical rehabilitation centre in the Borno state capital Maiduguri opens today, bringing physical rehabilitation services to hundreds of people living with …
18-11-2020 Addis Ababa / Geneva (ICRC) – In just two weeks, escalating fighting in Tigray and northern Ethiopia has triggered immense suffering and risks spiralling into a wider humanitarian crisis. …
12-11-2020 This week marks two years since the Lebanese Parliament passed Law 105 on the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared, thus acknowledging the families’ right to know the fate and whereabouts of …
06-11-2020 Kyiv (ICRC) - The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer completed his five-day visit to Ukraine today. Mr Maurer met the president of Ukraine as …
02-11-2020 Juba (ICRC) – Months of conflict followed by torrential rains have created a deepening humanitarian crisis in which communities now face a heightened risk of hunger, malnutrition and …
30-10-2020 Khartoum (ICRC) – Clashes, climate shocks and COVID-19 are driving more Sudanese into poverty and threatening the health and well-being of hundreds of thousands of people who were already …
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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.
