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 …
30-08-2018 Tel Aviv/ Gaza - On the International Day of Disappeared, the delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Israel and the Occupied Territories highlights that four …
29-08-2018 Tripoli (ICRC) – Tensions that started earlier this week have turned into armed confrontations in parts of Tripoli, in western Libya. An unknown number of people have reportedly been …
20-08-2018 Tokyo/Geneva – Speaking today at a meeting of parties to the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in Tokyo, Japan, Dr Helen Durham, Head of Law and Policy for the International Committee of the Red …
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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.
