An important UN-hosted conference to review progress on curbing the spread of nuclear weapons and nuclear disarmament has ended in failure. The 2015 Review Conference of the Treaty on the …
In Ukraine, the ICRC has been providing food and other assistance, helping people repair their war-damaged homes, supporting hospitals visiting detainees, tracing missing persons, maintaining contact …
Patricio Bustos says visits from ICRC delegates when he was imprisoned in Chile in the 1970s likely saved his life. Now, as head of the country's forensic services agency, he's working, with help …
Join us for a timely discussion on the legal, ethical and moral implications of the use of offensive autonomous weapons systems, led by Professor Chris Jenks from the SMU Dedman School of Law in …
Roubina Tahmazian is based at the ICRC's Tbilisi delegation, where she advises on mental health and pyscho-social issues. Here, she explains the theory of "ambiguous loss," which forms the basis of …
Since the beginning of the crisis in South Sudan, more than 200,000 South Sudanese have moved to Ethiopia, where the ICRC and the Ethiopian Red Cross have distributed seeds and tools to over 16,000 …
02-06-2015 Kuwait (ICRC) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer, has just completed a one-day official visit to Kuwait. Mr. Maurer met with the Emir of …
Historical background As soon as the conflicts broke out in the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, the ICRC and the other components of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement launched an …
The powerful earthquake and aftershocks in Nepal have left many communities traumatized and scared that their ordeal is far from over. The Nepal Red Cross and the ICRC have launched psycho-social …
An injured man is helped out of a car on arrival at Maiduguri State Specialist Hospital. The ICRC is training Nigerian medical staff and providing hospitals with first-aid and surgical materials and …
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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.
