25-03-2016 Belgrade/Pristina (ICRC) – The working group on persons unaccounted for in connection with events in Kosovo in 1998 and 1999 held its 42nd session in Belgrade today. Officials from …
24-03-2016 Baghdad/Geneva (ICRC) - International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) staff distributed aid today to more than 12,000 displaced people surviving in desperate conditions in west Ramadi, …
24-03-2016 PORT MORESBY – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is concerned by the ongoing humanitarian situation in Tari District, Hela Province, where hundreds of people have been …
23-03-2016 A joint convoy of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) and the United Nations yesterday reached several villages in the region of Al …
21-03-2016 Geneva – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has unveiled major new guidance on the implementation of the Geneva Conventions, bolstering arguments that, despite violations, …
19-03-2016 Joint statement by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the Syrian Red Crescent and the International Committee of the Red Cross. This week marks five …
18-03-2016 Kabul / Geneva - The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer, has said he is increasingly concerned about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in …
11-03-2016 Karachi (ICRC) - Today, a public-service campaign was launched in Karachi to get motorists to give way to ambulances and generally increase respect for ambulance services. Joining forces …
07-03-2016 Monrovia (ICRC) – Fourteen Ivorian children who had sought refuge in Liberia five years ago were reunited with their families between 4 and 12 February. The International Committee of the …
07-03-2016 Port Moresby (ICRC) – Visits by families to correctional institutions contribute positively towards the rehabilitation of detainees, according to Rueben Rupa, the Rehabilitation and …
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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.
