23-12-2018 Kuwait City (ICRC) - From 9 to 13 December, around 430 military personnel (personnel, officers and non-commissioned officers) from the north-western military base of Tabuk in addition to a …
20-12-2018 Cairo -Tripoli (ICRC) – In coordination with the authorities in Libya, Egypt and Malta, and through the support of Libyan and Egyptian Red Crescent Societies and the Malta Red Cross, the …
14-12-2018 Addis Ababa (ICRC) – In the wave of historic reforms that have swept Ethiopia this year, the needs of the country's displaced people must not be forgotten, the president of the …
07-12-2018 Geneva (ICRC) – The humanitarian sector’s growing use of digital and mobile technologies creates records that can be accessed and misused by third parties, potentially putting people …
06-12-2018 Quotes by Fabrizio Carboni, the regional director for the Near and Middle East for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) We welcome this agreement between Yemeni parties for …
06-12-2018 A statement from the International Committee of the Red Cross on the Global Compact on Migration Migrants are first and foremost human beings. The suffering experienced during a …
04-12-2018 Yerevan (ICRC) – The coordination mechanism comprising Georgian and Abkhaz participants that is seeking to account for 2,258 people who went missing in connection with the 1992-93 armed …
01-12-2018 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in partnership with the Tripoli Disabled Sport Association (TDSA) and the Hanna Lahoud Foundation, hosted the 1 st Annual Hanna Lahoud …
28-11-2018 Public statement from Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC): Relentless, high-casualty attacks in Afghanistan are beating down Afghans’ morale. …
26-11-2018 An emotional Christmas ad underscoring the sadness felt by separated families A familiar but out-of-place man takes cover behind a broken wall as gunfire rains down from abandoned …
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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.
