16-02-2019 Amman (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) facilitated on 14 February a meeting to discuss and exchange expertise with representatives of the Ministry of Health, …
11-02-2019 Geneva (ICRC-IFRC) – Seventy-four years after nuclear weapons obliterated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the risk that nuclear weapons will again be used is growing. Far …
09-02-2019 Amman (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Jordan Red Crescent Society (JRCS) organized a two-day regional meeting on Restoring Family Links (RFL) in Amman …
04-02-2019 Maiduguri/Abuja (ICRC) – A health facility in Rann and shelters for internally displaced people were burnt down a few days ago, the latest in a series of attacks in north-east Nigeria’s …
04-02-2019 Baghdad/Geneva (ICRC) – Rebuilding Iraq's social fabric is key to ensuring that the country can leave its violent past behind, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross …
28-01-2019 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) deplores the loss of life and injuries to civilians that resulted from yesterday's twin explosions in Jolo, Sulu province, southern …
23-01-2019 Kabul (ICRC) – A record number of disabled Afghans – more than 12,000 people – sought assistance for the first time in 2018 at physical rehabilitation centres run by the International …
22-01-2019 Geneva (ICRC) – The effects of climate change are exacerbating conflict between communities in both Mali and Niger, leading to a deepening of poverty, a weakening of public services and a …
16-01-2019 The ICRC develops its first massive open online course (MOOC) on sustainability in humanitarian action The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has developed a new online course …
31-12-2018 Juba (ICRC) - The ICRC has managed to facilitate the release and transport by air to Juba of 22 persons, who had been caught up in ongoing nearby fighting, from a remote location in 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.
