31-07-2020 The International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement urges all nations to end the nuclear era. Seventy-five years ago, on the morning of 6 August 1945, a B-29 warplane released a terrifying …
30-07-2020 CAIRO (ICRC / ERC): The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has donated essential personal protective equipment, worth more than 1 million Egyptian pound, to the Egyptian Red …
27-07-2020 Bangui (ICRC) – The struggle against COVID-19 is intensifying against the background of the alarming spread of the disease in the Central African Republic (CAR). Although the number of …
14-07-2020 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is concerned about the humanitarian impact of reported military activity along the international border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, …
09-07-2020 Countries affected by conflict are also disproportionately impacted by climate change , a double threat that pushes people out of their homes, disrupts food production, cuts off supplies, …
08-07-2020 When the outbreak of COVID-19 led to a global ceasefire, the fighting in the Sahel region continued unabated. In the Liptako Gourma region, which straddles Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, …
02-07-2020 Ouagadougou (ICRC) – For several months now, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been concerned by the lack of compliance with international humanitarian law in Burkina …
30-06-2020 Damascus/Geneva (ICRC) - A dramatically deteriorating economic situation, the impact of expanded sanctions, a simmering COVID-19 crisis and ongoing fighting in parts of the country are …
29-06-2020 Kuwait City (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Kuwait Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS), and the Kuwait Fund for Arab …
24-06-2020 Wolde-Gabriel Saugeron, who leads the International Committee of the Red Cross' team in Bor, Jonglei State, South Sudan, shares his fears that armed violence is erupting again, causing …
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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.
