30-03-2020 Geneva (ICRC) – It will be nearly impossible to fight COVID-19 in countries already devastated by conflict unless a concerted response by states and humanitarian organizations is launched …
27-03-2020 Geneva, 27 March 2020 –-The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement has launched a revised emergency appeal for 800 million Swiss francs to help the world's most vulnerable …
26-03-2020 The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement on 26 March 2020 launched a revised emergency appeal for 800 million Swiss francs (823 million US dollars) to help the world's most …
17-03-2020 On the eve of World Water Day, observed on March 22nd, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) takes stock of its relief efforts in northern Brazil, where communities suffer …
13-03-2020 Aleppo/Geneva (ICRC) – As the crisis in Syria moves into its tenth year, the needs of the people who have endured so much are vast and complex. The statistics are stark: more than 11 …
07-03-2020 Sanaa/Geneva (ICRC) - Intense fighting on the frontline between Sanaa and Al Jawf Governorate in Northern Yemen has displaced tens of thousands of people to Marib Governorate, leaving …
04-03-2020 Bogotá (ICRC) – The growing number of victims of explosive devices and anti-personnel mines, the confinement of communities, ongoing forced displacement and disappearances, attacks on …
04-03-2020 Juba (ICRC) – Hundreds of people have been wounded, families forced to flee their homes, and villages looted amidst intercommunal clashes that erupted mid-February in Jonglei State. The …
25-02-2020 Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply alarmed by the rapidly deteriorating security and living conditions of the hundreds of thousands of newly …
20-02-2020 Juba (ICRC) – As South Sudan's leaders face a deadline to form a unity government on Saturday, a key milestone in the country's peace process, millions of South Sudanese are struggling to …
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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.
