09-03-2017 Yangon / Kyaing Tong (ICRC) – The first physical rehabilitation centre in Shan State has officially opened its doors in Kyaing Tong. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) …
08-03-2017 Beijing (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Regional Delegation for East Asia and the Chengdu Second People's Hospital in Sichuan Province entered into a …
06-03-2017 Kismayo, Somalia (ICRC) - The number of severely malnourished children seeking urgent, life-saving treatment is on the rise at a nutritional centre in Somalia supported by the …
05-03-2017 Khartoum/ Kampala/ Juba (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has facilitated the release and repatriation of 125 people detained by the Sudan People's Liberation …
03-03-2017 Baghdad (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) condemns in the strongest possible terms the use of chemical weapons during fighting around the Iraqi city of Mosul. …
03-03-2017 Geneva (ICRC) – At its meeting on 2 March, the Assembly of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) appointed Ms Barbara Wildhaber and Mr Gilles Carbonnier as its newest …
01-03-2017 Port Moresby (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has commended the Papua New Guinea Government for establishing a National International Humanitarian Law (IHL) …
18-02-2017 Kabul / Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is calling for the safe and unconditional release of two staff members abducted when their convoy was ambushed …
16-02-2017 Video B-roll available for download Nairobi (ICRC) – At a time of increasing concerns about severe drought and potential famine in Somalia, the International Committee of the Red Cross …
14-02-2017 Mexico (ICRC) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer, today urged governments in Latin America and the Caribbean to support the negotiations …
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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.
