30-08-2024 Israel and the Occupied Territories (ICRC) – On the International Day of the Disappeared, our hearts are with Israeli, Palestinian and all other families enduring the agony of not knowing …
30-08-2024 International Day of the Disappeared, 30 August 2024 Colombo, ICRC - On the International Day of the Disappeared, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) remembers the hundreds …
The International Committee of the Red Cross in the Republic of Moldova (ICRC) is proud to announce an essay competition on the theme Digitalization of Armed Conflicts . The competition seeks to …
29-08-2024 Nairobi (ICRC) — Over 71,000 people across Africa are registered as missing with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), a 75 per cent rise from the number recorded in 2019. …
29-08-2024 Geneva/Amman (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) commemorated the International Day of the Disappeared, held each year on August 30th, by organizing a public event …
29-08-2024 Geneva (ICRC) – At its meeting of 29 August 2024, the Assembly of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) elected Ms Annelis Lüscher Hämmerli as its newest member. She will …
Nothing can describe the anguish and uncertainty that families go through when a loved one goes missing. This is compounded by the difficulties that families of the missing face in understanding and …
29-08-2024 Many statistics understate the actual number of cases due to persistent underreporting. Some countries still lack an appropriate legal framework explicitly recognizing the rights of …
In the first half of 2024, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) facilitated improved access to primary health care, mostly for women and children, by supporting the routine vaccination …
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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.
