03-12-2019 Geneva (ICRC) – With the goal of increasing sports opportunities and societal acceptance for people with disabilities, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is in the midst …
02-12-2019 Juba, South Sudan (ICRC)—Eighty wheelchair basketball players, including—for the first time—15 women, from across South Sudan have gathered in Juba for three weeks of training led by two …
08-11-2019 Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply concerned for the civilian population in north-east Syria amid an ongoing shutdown of a key regional water …
08-11-2019 Juba (ICRC) - Following the decision to extend the pre-transitional period by 100 days, peace and stability remain more than ever the prerequisites to alleviate the suffering of millions …
07-11-2019 Second and third place were given to a report on missing persons published by Época magazine and a special on the conflict in Syria that was aired by TV Bandeirantes São Paulo (ICRC) – The …
06-11-2019 Addis Ababa, 31 October 2019: The Peace and Security Department of the African Union Commission (AUC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), held the biennial seminar on …
01-11-2019 Ouagadougou - Fighting in the Sahel , centre-north and north regions of Burkina Faso has forced thousands of people from their homes in recent weeks . In Soum province (Sahel), hundreds of …
31-10-2019 African Union state members and experts assess humanitarian impact of explosive weapons in populated areas Addis Ababa (ICRC) – A seminar on addressing effects of the use explosive weapons …
23-10-2019 Bangui (ICRC) – Since 1 September, ongoing fighting between armed groups has forced large numbers of people in Birao, in the north-east of the Central African Republic, to flee their …
23-10-2019 Dakar (ICRC) – This year Burkina Faso hits record levels of people forced from their homes by violence while exactly ten years ago member States of the African Union became the first in …
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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.
