11-11-2015 On 11-12 November 2015, 24 African States gathered to discuss the Montreux Document on pertinent international legal obligations and good practices for States related to operations of …
10-11-2015 Geneva / Sana'a – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is appalled by the continuing attacks on health care facilities in Yemen, the latest of which took place in the city …
09-11-2015 Bujumbura / Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is extremely concerned by the humanitarian consequences of the violence in Burundi. It calls on all parties …
08-11-2015 Kiev / Donetsk – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) held a round-table discussion on 7 November in Donetsk with key stakeholders on searching for dead bodies and on …
06-11-2015 Geneva / Bangui – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply concerned by intensifying violence in the Central African Republic . The organization calls upon all parties …
05-11-2015 Beirut / Tyre – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) held a three-day course from 3 to 5 November 2015 on the management of emergency-room trauma at the Ragheb Harb hospital …
05-11-2015 Manila (ICRC) – A community-based water-supply system providing potable water to over 4,000 people, including displaced families, was officially inaugurated today in Barangay Taluksangay, …
02-11-2015 Joint statement International Committee of the Red Cross, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Iran Red Crescent Society, Tehran. Tehran (ICRC) – Today the …
31-10-2015 Kiev/Severodonetsk (ICRC) – Huge blasts after an ammunition depot exploded in the town of Svatove, in the Lugansk region, have left at least eight people wounded and two dead. Many …
30-10-2015 Photo: UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré (Geneva, 31 October 2015) The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, and the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross …
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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.
