04-10-2019 BAGHDAD (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross is concerned by the increasingly violent clashes between protesters and security forces across Iraq . The deaths of civilians …
04-10-2019 Geneva/Amsterdam, 4 October 2019 – The massive mental health needs of people affected by humanitarian emergencies are not being addressed, warned leaders of the International Committee of …
03-10-2019 Jerusalem - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) laments the misplaced public pressure directed towards its offices and staff over the past days which has led to the …
30-09-2019 Geneva/Sanaa (ICRC) – The unilateral release of 290 detainees, including 42 survivors of an attack on a place of detention in Dhamar this month, took place today. The release was …
26-09-2019 New York (ICRC) – The building momentum in support of a world free of nuclear weapons is a hopeful sign for the future of humanity as more States on Thursday signed a landmark treaty …
25-09-2019 Abuja (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) condemns in the strongest terms the tragic killing of an abducted member of the Action Against Hunger team. The ICRC is …
12-09-2019 Abuja (ICRC) - Nearly 22,000 Nigerians have been reported as missing to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) during a decade of conflict in northeast Nigeria, the highest …
11-09-2019 A statement from James Reynolds, the ICRC's head of delegation in South Sudan , on the situation in the country one year after the signing of the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of …
09-09-2019 Ouagadougou (ICRC) – A downward spiral in violence in Burkina Faso this year has resulted in more than 500,000 people having their access to health care completely cut off or drastically …
01-09-2019 Geneva/Sanaa (ICRC) – A building serving as a detention facility in Yemen was destroyed in an airstrike, killing or injuring every detainee inside when the multi-story facility crumbled. …
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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.
