15-12-2016 The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Syria, Marianne Gasser, has said it could take days to complete the evacuation operation in the Syrian city of Aleppo. …
15-12-2016 Abuja (ICRC) – Health care workers in Nigeria can now use smartphones and tablets to improve the quality of diagnoses and drug prescriptions for children under five thanks to an initiative …
15-12-2016 Monrovia (LNRCS/ICRC) – Nearly 1,250 Liberian law enforcement and fire service officials have trained in basic first aid this year with the help of the Liberian Red Cross (LNRCS) and the …
14-12-2016 Manila (ICRC) – Through a four-year pilot project that improved tuberculosis (TB) control processes in the Quezon City Jail (QCJ), more TB cases were found and treated among the detainees, …
13-12-2016 Manila (ICRC) – Nearly 7,000 people have been displaced for more than a month following armed clashes between government security forces and armed groups in Basilan province, southern …
13-12-2016 Thousands of civilians' lives are in danger as frontlines close in around them in eastern Aleppo. As the battle reaches new peaks and the area is plunged into chaos, thousands with no part …
12-12-2016 Abuja (ICRC) – In recent days, surgical teams from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have treated over 90 people wounded in the bomb blasts in Madagali and Maiduguri in …
11-12-2016 Karachi (ICRC) – A public awareness campaign on respecting ambulances' right of way, entitled RastaDein, was launched in Karachi in 2016 as part of the Health Care in Danger project. A …
09-12-2016 Delegations from Argentina and the United Kingdom today agreed, in principle, on the mandate that they will jointly entrust to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to carry …
09-12-2016 ICRC President Peter Maurer paid a two-day visit to Iran in December 2016 to meet Iranian officials and take part in an international conference on "Islam and international humanitarian …
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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.
