11-09-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today presented measures designed to maximize the effectiveness of its humanitarian assistance in line with its initial …
08-09-2023 Geneva/Beijing (ICRC) – Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), concluded a four-day visit to China on Thursday. President Spoljaric met with …
07-09-2023 Juba, South Sudan (ICRC) – Following a half-day contesting, Starford International University College won the championship of the 5th South Sudan International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Moot …
05-09-2023 On 30 August 2023, the African Union Commission (AUC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), with the support of the Embassy of Switzerland in Ethiopia, organized a …
04-09-2023 Geneva/Beijing (ICRC) – Mirjana Spoljaric, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), arrived in Beijing today for her first official visit to China. During the …
04-09-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – At its meeting on 31 August, the Assembly of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) appointed Ms Valerie Robert and Mr Aymo Brunetti as its newest members. …
01-09-2023 Nairobi (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has carried out its first visit to over 300 detainees in Las Anod on Thursday, August 31. The detained combatants were …
30-08-2023 Families in Iraq are still searching for answers years and decades after their loved ones went missing. As we mark the International Day of the Disappeared today, the International …
30-08-2023 Colombo (ICRC) – On the International Day of the Disappeared, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) remembers the hundreds of thousands of people around the world who are …
28-08-2023 An update on ICRC’s work in the country, from Afghanistan Head of Delegation Eloi Fillion: Just more than half of all Afghans need humanitarian assistance. What that really means: One in …
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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.
