30-08-2019 Pristina (ICRC) – A theatrical play titled The Stools , directed by renowned Kosovo director Fadil Hysaj and supported by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), was staged …
30-08-2019 Baghdad (ICRC) – The families of hundreds of thousands of missing Iraqis marked the International Day of the Disappeared on Friday, as the office of Iraq's Prime Minister pledged to …
30-08-2019 Juba (ICRC) – As the world marks the International Day of Missing Persons, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is following more than 4,000 cases of missing South Sudanese. …
29-08-2019 Pretoria (ICRC) — Families in southern Africa who are looking for a missing relative now have a new online tool to help them in their search. Trace the Face , a secure website created and …
19-08-2019 World Humanitarian Day 2019 honours women aid workers ICRC: better protection of women in war needed UN: Humanitarian crises disproportionately affect women UN estimates 83% of displaced …
12-08-2019 Geneva/Sanaa (Yemen) Hospitals in the Yemeni city of Aden are struggling and desperately in need of basic supplies, following days of fighting that left scores dead and hundreds injured, …
12-08-2019 Kabul (ICRC) - As Eid ul-Adha is approaching, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is disheartened to see that the ongoing peace talks have not diminished the intensity of …
12-08-2019 Port Moresby (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) mission in Papua New Guinea will host celebrations to mark 70 years of the Geneva Conventions on 12 August in Port …
08-07-2019 Close to 50 experts from 16 countries are expected to attend the 14th Southeast and Northeast Asia Session on International Humanitarian Law being organized from today in Hanoi, Viet Nam. …
08-07-2019 Juba (ICRC) - The number of patients admitted to International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)-supported surgical units in South Sudan with injuries from violence remains high ten months …
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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.
