08-12-2016 Damascus/Geneva: Nearly 150 civilians, most of whom were disabled or in urgent need of care, were evacuated late night from a hospital in the Old City of Aleppo, in a joint operation by …
06-12-2016 A new Red Cross survey shows that the majority of Australians oppose torture in war but many don't know that torturing a soldier for information is wrong, while some think it is …
05-12-2016 Geneva (ICRC) – With fighting intensifying around the Syrian city of Aleppo, a new survey , published today, on how people around the world perceive a range of issues relating to war, …
29-11-2016 Yangon/Myitkyina (ICRC) – The first physical rehabilitation centre in the northern part of Myanmar officially opens its doors today in Myitkyina, Kachin State, following an investment of …
25-11-2016 On 23 and 24 November 2016, the Hellenic Police and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) organized the second workshop on immigration detention in Athens, Greece. The …
23-11-2016 Abuja (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) begins a two-day consultative forum on forensic services and management of human remains in Abuja today. High …
22-11-2016 Geneva / Sana'a – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is alarmed by the situation in the city of Taiz following days of intensive fighting. "Sniper fire and indiscriminate …
22-11-2016 Geneva/Kiev (ICRC) –The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) calls upon the members of the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk to take urgent action to ensure a continued water …
18-11-2016 Jerusalem (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is concerned about the deteriorating health of Anas Shadid and Ahmad Abu Farra, who have been hospitalized in Israel. …
18-11-2016 Beijing - The tenth edition of the international humanitarian law (IHL) moot competition- an inter-university competition on IHL -opens today in China University of Political Science and …
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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.
