29-05-2020 Mogadishu (ICRC)—The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply shocked by the killing of eight people in Gololey village in the Balcad district in Hirshabelle. Amongst …
28-05-2020 Geneva, 28 May 2020 – The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is appealing for 3.1 billion Swiss francs (3.19 billion US dollars) to urgently scale up its global response to …
27-05-2020 Warfare must be put on hold to help already fragile health systems and communities cope with the pandemic Joint appeal by Mark Lowcock, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs; …
26-05-2020 Jakarta (ICRC) – Ramping up its response to COVID-19, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in coordination with the Directorate General of Prisons of the Ministry of Law …
21-05-2020 Juba (ICRC) – An eruption of intercommunal violence in Jonglei State in north-eastern South Sudan has left hundreds dead, many more injured and thousands displaced. COVID-19 restrictions …
21-05-2020 Geneva (ICRC)—The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is one of the five Nobel Peace Prize recipients being celebrated in a documentary series launched today by National …
19-05-2020 A statement from Esperanza Martinez, the head of health for the International Committee of the Red Cross. "This crisis underlines the chasm between health services in developed and …
14-05-2020 Geneva (ICRC) – The Assembly of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has appointed two new members, Suba Umathevan and Rémy Best. Suba Umathevan was born in Sri Lanka. When …
13-05-2020 Juba (ICRC) – The mortuary at Juba Teaching Hospital, the largest in South Sudan, has been renovated with the support of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to help …
12-05-2020 Geneva (ICRC) – The 2020 Florence Nightingale Medal pays tribute to nursing staff who put themselves on the line to care for others while working in the most dangerous conditions. 12 May …
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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.
