08-05-2017 The ICRC and The National Press Club Malaysia (NPC), together with the Malaysian Red Crescent Society (MRCS), celebrate the World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day today by launching the 2017 …
05-05-2017 Dushanbe (ICRC) – Today, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) provided medical supplies to Ishkashim District Hospital in Gorno–Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast in Tajikistan. …
04-05-2017 Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is about to begin another round of excavations in search of the remains of people who went missing during and after the …
28-04-2017 Mogadishu, Somalia (ICRC) - Drought-stricken families in rural Somalia have been given a lifeline via $100 cash grants to see them through lean times brought on by severe drought. The …
25-04-2017 The ICRC's director for the Middle East, Robert Mardini, has said the humanitarian situation in Yemen is deteriorating fast and a massive international effort is needed to relieve the …
25-04-2017 Tanzania, 25 April 2017: On the occasion of the African Pre-Trial Detention, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the African Commission for Human and People's Rights …
20-04-2017 Jerusalem (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) condemns an attack which has taken place in its office in the West Bank city of Hebron. At around eleven o’clock last …
13-04-2017 Beirut, Lebanon. Forty-two years after the civil war began in Lebanon, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) calls on the Lebanese authorities to pass a law that will help …
04-04-2017 Khartoum (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has provided humanitarian assistance to 253 detainees released by the government of Sudan on 9 March. The majority of …
03-04-2017 Harare (ICRC) - African states are meeting in Harare, Zimbabwe from 3 to 5 April to consider how to improve implementation of the groundbreaking regional agreement to protect internally …
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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.
