09-01-2015 Families living in the eastern provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Orientale are due to be reunited with their children today after months or even years apart. The 147 boys and five …
11-01-2015 Baghdad/Erbil/Geneva (ICRC) – At the end of a six-day visit to Iraq, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) vowed to scale up assistance to displaced people …
13-01-2015 Over the past three months, more than 25,000 people (residents, displaced people and returnees) have been aided by the ICRC, which worked closely with the Red Cross Society of Niger to …
13-01-2015 The increasing economic hardship of families caring for refugees in Lebanon has come into sharp focus in recent days. Over a million people have fled the conflict in Syria, including …
21-01-2015 Baghdad/Tehran (ICRC) - The ICRC has once again participated in the handover of the remains of soldiers killed during the Iran-Iraq war. The remains were repatriated to their respective …
03-02-2015 Heavy shelling of residential areas in Donetsk and towns like Debaltsevo has continued over the weekend. Despite dangerous conditions, teams from the International Committee of the Red …
03-02-2015 Violence has been on the rise again in the capital Bangui in recent weeks, with reports of armed robberies and abductions in neighbourhoods in the north of the city. As a result, …
04-02-2015 Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is appalled by the repeated damage caused to medical facilities on both sides of the front line in Ukraine. Hospital N27 …
09-02-2015 Bamako / Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply concerned about the situation in northern Mali. The ICRC medical team at Gao regional hospital has …
09-02-2015 Geneva – The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is deeply saddened to learn of the death of two staff and one volunteer from the Sudanese Red Crescent Society. They were …
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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.
