30-10-2014 Geneva (ICRC) – A new e-learning module , specifically designed to help health-care personnel understand the effects of violence on health care, their own rights and responsibilities and …
30-10-2014 Despite the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, acts of indiscriminate shelling and security incidents continue to put civilians at risk. The approaching winter makes the situation of both …
30-10-2014 Addis Ababa/Geneva (ICRC) – Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), today concluded a three-day visit to Ethiopia, during which he held talks with …
31-10-2014 Dhaka (ICRC) – Disabled cricketers, coaches, officials, physiotherapists and other interested persons learned about cricket for people with disabilities at a seminar held in Mirpur today – …
31-10-2014 Yerevan (ICRC) – Some 50 specialists of international law, researchers and representatives of the international community, the Armenian government and civil society are meeting in Yerevan …
03-11-2014 Kuala Lumpur (ICRC) – A unique photo exhibition depicting over 150 years of humanitarian action will be held at the University of Malaya Art Gallery from 3 to 30 November. The event, …
03-11-2014 One year after Super Typhoon Haiyan ripped through the Philippines, hundreds of thousands of people whose livelihoods were devastated are returning to work with the support of the …
03-11-2014 The ICRC and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent continue to provide millions of Syrians in both government- and opposition-held areas with emergency relief and clean water. Last month, after …
04-11-2014 Algiers (ICRC) – An important meeting of experts from Arab States on international humanitarian law is starting in Algiers today under the joint patronage of Algeria's justice minister and …
05-11-2014 Brussels (ICRC) – Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), visited Brussels on 5 November to meet members of the new European Commission and …
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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.
