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 …
11-05-2020 Geneva – Nurses and other health care workers on the frontlines of the fight against COVID-19 deserve to be recognized and commended for their life-saving efforts and personal sacrifices …
07-05-2020 The Rwanda Red Cross Society as an auxiliary to the Public Authorities, with the support of International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), International Federation of Red Cross and Red …
29-04-2020 GENEVA (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) calls on governments to systematically include migrants, irrespective of legal status, in their programmes and policies …
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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.
