29-04-2016 Manila (ICRC) – To help alleviate the plight of communities affected by the El Niño phenomenon, food rations were distributed to over 29,000 people in two drought-hit municipalities in …
28-04-2016 Damascus/Geneva - The intense battles raging in Aleppo, which have seen a key hospital destroyed with significant loss of life, are putting millions at grave risk, the International …
22-04-2016 Geneva/Bamako (ICRC) – The three staff members with whom the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had lost contact on 16 April were unconditionally released today, safe and …
20-04-2016 Geneva (ICRC) – The body of an Armenian soldier was returned today in an operation carried out under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The handover took …
20-04-2016 Sarajevo (ICRC/Red Cross Society of Bosnia and Herzegovina) – The annual European Restoring Family Links conference started today in Sarajevo. The International Federation of Red Cross and …
18-04-2016 Geneva/Bamako (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confirms that it has had no contact since Saturday with three of its staff members who were on assignment in …
15-04-2016 Monrovia (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has given a four-day training course in international humanitarian law (IHL) to 24 junior and senior Liberian army …
15-04-2016 Nairobi/Geneva - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Somali Red Crescent Society have begun distributing rice, beans and cereals to nearly 60,000 people affected by …
15-04-2016 Around 13,000 people in Maguindanao province in central Mindanao who have been displaced for over two months, owing to the armed clashes between government forces and the Bangsamoro …
14-04-2016 Amman (ICRC) – With the Syrian crisis showing no signs of abating, thousands of people continue to gather at the Hadalat and Rukban crossing points along Jordan's north-eastern border, …
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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.
