05-11-2014 Thousands of people displaced by conflict in north-eastern Nigeria have taken refuge in Maiduguri. On 3 November, the ICRC and the Nigerian Red Cross Society completed the distribution of …
08-11-2014 Bamako (ICRC) – Members of the Malian parliament are taking part in a daylong event in Bamako today that is intended to raise awareness of their role in promoting and implementing …
13-11-2014 Geneva/Damascus (ICRC) – The scale of the crisis in Syria, with millions of people affected, is staggering, and parties to the conflict must do more to protect civilians, including health …
14-11-2014 Beirut – Palestinian refugees arriving in Lebanon from Syria are facing harsh winter conditions in the northern Bekaa Valley, where whole families have little or no means of survival. …
17-11-2014 Tensions mounted in Bangui again last weekend when demonstrations by armed men blocked roads, bringing traffic in the capital to a standstill. The events are part of a rising wave of …
18-11-2014 Belgrade/Pristina (ICRC) - The working group on persons unaccounted for in connection with events in Kosovo between 1998 and 1999 held its 38th session in Belgrade today. Officials from …
19-11-2014 The ICRC, in close cooperation with the Red Cross of Chad, has distributed essential items to over 5,000 displaced people living in the isolated area of Am Timan, south-eastern Chad. Since …
20-11-2014 Antananarivo (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in cooperation with Madagascar’s Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Health, is organizing a dental health day at …
24-11-2014 Rabat/Geneva (ICRC) – The Moroccan government and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) signed an agreement today that formalizes the relations the ICRC has had with Morocco …
26-11-2014 Kuwait (ICRC) – At a three-day regional seminar in Kuwait that ended today, prison authorities and health professionals came together to discuss mechanisms to improve health care in places …
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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.
