29-10-2020 Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has facilitated the handover of bodies of combatants killed in action during the recent escalation of the …
28-10-2020 A statement from Martin Schüepp, International Committee of the Red Cross Eurasia Regional Director, in Geneva. "Alongside thousands of civilians, the ICRC witnessed intense shelling in …
26-10-2020 Geneva/New York, 24 October 2020 – The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement welcomes the coming into force of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Fifty …
21-10-2020 Abuja (ICRC) – First responders seeking to assist the wounded must be allowed to do their work unimpeded in Nigeria’s ongoing protests, while live ammunition must be used only as a last …
16-10-2020 Geneva (ICRC) – More than 1,000 people formerly detained in relation to the conflict in Yemen were transported back to their region of origin or to their home countries by the …
16-10-2020 Abuja (ICRC) — The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has seen an increase in malnutrition rates among children in nutrition centres it supports in Nigeria. The number of …
15-10-2020 Geneva (ICRC)—Rising food prices and job losses triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic are raising fears that food insecurity and malnutrition in lower-income communities across Africa are on …
15-10-2020 Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will be giving real-time updates for media during the release and transfer of detainees from the Yemen conflict. Facts …
14-10-2020 Juba/Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) facilitated the release of three people, including two Sudanese nationals, deprived of their freedom in South …
13-10-2020 Today, we are more than two weeks into a period of intense violence as the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict escalates . We estimate there are hundreds of thousands of people affected across the …
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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.
