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 …
09-06-2020 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF)'s first joint humanitarian aid flight landed in Khartoum on 9 June 2020 at …
04-06-2020 Brazil (ICRC) - The situation in Brazil is worrisome. The rising death toll from the new coronavirus has made it one of the most affected countries by the pandemic, with more than 32,000 …
03-06-2020 • In Nigeria, 95 per cent of people we talked to told us their sources of income have suffered • In Iraq, 83 per cent of people told us livelihoods have suffered • In Ukraine, 75 per cent …
01-06-2020 1 June 2020 - Facebook and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement are partnering to launch #AfricaTogether – a digital campaign and two-day festival on 4 and 5 June …
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; …
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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.
