26-09-2018 Speech to UNGA event on the protection of civilians and respect for international humanitarian law New York – Speaking today at an UN General Assembly event on the protection of civilians, …
26-09-2018 Speech to UN General Assembly high-level event on Syria New York – Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), issued a stark reminder of the scale of …
25-09-2018 Yemen side-event: Addressing malnutrition in Yemen Yemen Side-Event: Addressing Malnutrition in Yemen New York – At the United Nations General Assembly High-Level meeting on "Addressing …
17-09-2018 Geneva/Abuja (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross condemns in the strongest terms the tragic killing of its abducted colleague Saifura Hussaini Ahmed Khorsa. It is …
09-09-2018 BAGHDAD (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross is increasingly concerned by the deterioration of the security situation in Basra. The deaths of civilians and the growing …
05-09-2018 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the media development organizations Fondation Hirondelle and Internews, respectively, to …
04-09-2018 Geneva (ICRC) - A statement from Fabrizzio Carboni, regional director for the Near and Middle East at the International Committee of the Red Cross. As fears of renewed violence mount in …
04-09-2018 Geneva/Ramadi (ICRC/Canon) - The photos: A rusted-out car in rubble. A collapsed bridge. Tattered Iraqi flags. A portrait of a younger sister, a tight smile on her lips. The photographers: …
03-09-2018 Geneva (ICRC) – Speaking at the opening of the Meeting of States party to the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, vice-president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), …
30-08-2018 Time is running out for families of 2,400 people who went missing as a result of armed conflicts. Tbilisi (ICRC) – Every year, worldwide, the International Day of the Disappeared is marked …
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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.
