15-04-2019 On 8 April 2019, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) chaired the 13th meeting of the Coordination Mechanism, established with the purely humanitarian objective of …
15-04-2019 Suva (ICRC) - Two workshops on international rules and standards for members of the Fijian Police Force were conducted by the ICRC's regional delegation for police and security in …
14-04-2019 Geneva/Damascus (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is making a public call for information about three staff members abducted in Syria more than five years ago. …
12-04-2019 JAKARTA, 12 April 2019 - ASEAN Secretariat and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) co-organized the first workshop on challenges and humanitarian action in Southeast Asia …
11-04-2019 Caracas/Geneva (ICRC) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has completed a five-day visit to Venezuela as the organization looks to ramp up its …
05-04-2019 Caracas (ICRC) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer, is making a five-day visit to Venezuela from 6 to 10 April. Maurer will view the ICRC's …
03-04-2019 Mexico (ICRC) – Migrants travelling through Central America and Mexico began receiving WhatsApp messages on Monday with advice on how to avoid and prevent accidents, illness and being …
29-03-2019 Geneva (ICRC) - As flood-waters from Cyclone Idai recede, the scale of the devastation left behind is becoming clearer. But, worryingly, some of the hardest hit communities remain cut off …
28-03-2019 The ICRC reports on its main humanitarian concerns in the country Bogotá - Deteriorating security conditions in the country´s most remote areas; at least five ongoing internal armed …
27-03-2019 Yemen/Geneva (ICRC) – Four years after the beginning of the conflict in Yemen and only a few months after agreements that gave hope to a war-weary nation , a renewal in hostilities is …
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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.
