15-03-2019 A three-day international round-table on “Humanitarian mine action, challenges and best practices” was organized in Tehran from 12 to 14 March 2019. Tehran (ICRC) – Experts from national …
07-03-2019 ICRC (Kuwait / Muscat) – The ICRC is running its annual war surgery course in Muscat, to train Omani surgeons and health professionals on the management of war wounded patients. The …
06-03-2019 Abuja (ECOWAS Community Court / ICRC) – Judges and staff of the Community Court of Justice, ECOWAS attended a two-day training workshop on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) on 6 March …
04-03-2019 Geneva (ICRC) - An update from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on the situation in the Al Hol camp for displaced people in north-eastern Syria : “While the …
28-02-2019 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the China Disabled Person's Federation (CDPF) have agreed to further their cooperation in providing quality service to people with …
25-02-2019 Geneva – The United Nations and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement today pledged to step up action to prevent, end and respond to sexual and gender-based violence in and …
19-02-2019 "The Missing" is the humanitarian organization's first collaboration with NBC News' experimental video unit, NBC Left Field The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and NBC News …
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 …
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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.
