03-09-2017 Sana'a / Geneva, 03 September 2017 – The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is deeply saddened by the death of our colleague and friend, Dr Abdulah Alkhamesi, founder of the …
31-08-2017 Beirut, Lebanon – On the International Day of the Disappeared, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is calling upon Lebanese authorities to fulfil their obligations to …
31-08-2017 Geneva (ICRC) – The Assembly of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has today appointed Mr Christoph Franz as its newest member. This brings the membership of the Committee …
31-08-2017 BEIJING (Aug. 31) – In the framework of the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Convention, the 7th Advanced International Humanitarian Law (IHL) …
30-08-2017 Manila (ICRC) – It has been more than three months since fighting broke out in Marawi City, in Lanao del Sur province, but for families whose loved ones are still missing, the wait seems …
25-08-2017 The ICRC strongly deplores last night's airstrikes in Sana'a, which killed 14 people and injured another 16. The casualties included at least 5 children, the youngest of them only 3 years …
24-08-2017 Tripoli (ICRC) – Hospitals in Libya are suffering from a shortage of medical supplies even as they see an increase in patients, leading the ICRC to donate a new round of needed medicines …
17-08-2017 Juba (ICRC) - The president of the ICRC arrived in South Sudan today to view the devastating effects that the country's continued violence is having on the millions of residents on the …
15-08-2017 Beijing/Ulaanbaatar (ICRC) – A three-day training course on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) aiming at boosting the regional coordination in humanitarian response, opens today in …
11-08-2017 Geneva/Manila (ICRC) – The ICRC, in partnership with the Philippine Red Cross (PRC), has just completed an aid distribution among 7,000 displaced people in Tamparan municipality, an area …
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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.
