20-10-2018 Dubai (ICRC) – More than 120 senior military officers from over 80 countries will participate in the Senior Workshop on International Rules governing Military Operations (SWIRMO) jointly …
19-10-2018 Juba/Geneva – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has facilitated the release of 24 persons detained in relation to the conflict in South Sudan, including 16 detainees …
17-10-2018 Senior police officers representing fifteen countries of the Americas assembled from 17 to 19 October in Cusco, Peru, to analyze the challenges posed by urban violence and to seek possible …
16-10-2018 Abuja/Geneva (ICRC) – A second health worker held hostage in Nigeria has been murdered. It's utterly devastating that we have to write that sentence. The International Committee of the Red …
15-10-2018 “Repatriation Flight” exhibits a history of humanitarian services of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement It's been over 30 years since the Iran-Iraq war came to an end. …
14-10-2018 Mosul (ICRC): A new physical rehabilitation centre was opened in Mosul on 14 October 2018. Constructed by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Ninawa Physical …
04-10-2018 Tbilisi (ICRC): The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) visited Maia Otinashvili in Tskhinval/i prison on the evening of 3 October 2018. According to its mandate, the ICRC …
01-10-2018 (Geneva) – One week after world leaders gathered to discuss Syria's upcoming reconstruction challenges, new figures from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) serve as a …
27-09-2018 Speech to UNGA High-Level Event New York – Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), called on the international community to move out of political …
26-09-2018 Signing ceremony of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons New York – The President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer today issued a stark …
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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.
