28-06-2017 Pyongyang / Beijing (ICRC) – A three-day course on Blast Trauma Care ends in Pyongyang today. Organized by the ICRC in cooperation with the Ministry of Public Security (MoPS) and the DPRK …
19-06-2017 Geneva/Baghdad –The ICRC is alarmed by the situation of tens of thousands of civilians trapped in Mosul as military operations intensify in the densely populated old town. Civilians in …
15-06-2017 Kinshasa (ICRC) – The two members of a team from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) who were abducted in the morning of Wednesday, 7 June, between Kirumba and Beni, near …
14-06-2017 Harare (ICRC) - Government representatives from nearly 30 Commonwealth countries are meeting in Swakopmund, Namibia from 14 to 15 June 2017 to explore how to strengthen respect for …
14-06-2017 A new ICRC report launched today reveals five times more civilians die in offensives carried out in cities than in other battles. The report, called 'I Saw My City Die', also found that …
13-06-2017 Geneva/Sana'a–As the number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen reaches unprecedented levels, with one in every 200 Yemenis suspected of having been infected with the disease, the ICRC is …
12-06-2017 Following a new localized spike in hostilities in eastern Ukraine, workers manning a major water pumping station could not stay on duty, putting hundreds of thousands of people at risk of …
12-06-2017 Astana/Geneva (ICRC) – In a move to promote structured dialogue on international humanitarian law, the ICRC and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) entered into a Memorandum of …
08-06-2017 Tel Aviv – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) urges the Hamas authorities to comply with their obligations under international humanitarian law with regard to the five …
03-06-2017 Geneva, Switzerland (ICRC) – Final preparations are underway ahead of work to identify the mortal remains of the unidentified Argentine soldiers buried in Darwin cemetery. Laurent Corbaz, …
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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.
