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 …
22-10-2019 Geneva (ICRC) – A nuclear bomb hasn’t been detonated in war in nearly 75 years, but increasing international tensions and 6 million views on a week-old video show how relevant the issue …
14-10-2019 Geneva (ICRC) – An update from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on the situation in north-east Syria : _ The ongoing hostilities are having a devastating impact on the …
09-10-2019 Geneva (ICRC) – After eight years of conflict, 11.7 million people across Syria require humanitarian aid. In the face of such need, the International Committee of the Red Cross is deeply …
07-10-2019 Geneva (ICRC) – Nearly three in four millennials – 73 per cent – surveyed across 15 countries said that mental health needs are as important as water, food and shelter for victims of wars …
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 …
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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.
