—ICRC holds session at the Global Health Forum of Boao Forum for Asia On July 16, the 3rd Conference of Global Health Forum of Boao Forum for Asia was held in Beijing. The ICRC held a session on …
Gaza (ICRC) – The 60-bed Red Cross Field Hospital in Rafah, southern Gaza is nearly at full capacity following repeated mass casualty events. They include the attack in Al-Mawasi on Saturday that …
In 2015, following armed conflicts in Syria and beyond, Greece found itself at the frontline of an influx of refugees unprecedented in its recent history, in a conjunction of challenging social and …
Port Sudan (ICRC) – Fifteen months since the beginning of the armed conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, millions of people do not have access to essential …
16-07-2024 The ICRC, in collaboration with the Lebanese Red Cross (LRC), has launched a large humanitarian initiative to distribute food parcels Beirut — The International Committee of the Red Cross …
14-07-2024 Over the last week, communities in northern Gaza have endured increased fighting, resulting in large numbers of civilians killed and injured. This comes on top of nine months of …
The capacity of healthcare responders in Gaza continues to be stretched beyond anything seen before October 2023. What is left to meet the medical needs are referral systems between primary health …
Sitara Mahmudova and her two sons, Nijat and Elchin, waited over 30 years to hear news of their missing husband and father, Akif Mahmudov, who went missing in 1992 in Khojali during the Karabakh war. …
— ICRC hosts "Adhering to Humanitarian Norms in Armed Conflicts" Panel at World Peace Forum The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Institute of International Relations of …
09-07-2024 Statement delivered by Laetitia Courtois, Permanent Observer and Head of Delegation, at UN Security Council Arria-Formula Meeting "Stepping up Preventive Action: From Environment …
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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.
