The families of 80 people from the community of Accomarca in Ayacucho, who went missing almost four decades ago during the internal conflict in Peru that lasted from 1980 to 2000, were finally able …
It has been a decade since intercommunal violence began causing waves of displacement in Rakhine State, Myanmar – disrupting lives and livelihoods for thousands of people. COVID-19 and the military …
From 5 to 9 June 2022, over 60 senior police officers from more than 45 countries came together in Amman, Jordan, to participate in a high-level workshop on international rules and standards …
Update: 24 June 2022 What happened? On January 18 we determined that the personal data on more than 515,000 people worldwide was accessed by hackers. They did so through a cyber-attack on the servers …
Geneva, 13 June 2022 – Leaders of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement will gather next week in Geneva, Switzerland to explore ways in which the world’s largest humanitarian network …
Thousands of children from different countries continue to be stranded in camps in Syria and Iraq in very harsh conditions. Meanwhile, some others have made their way back home and are trying to …
Education is a fundamental human right and an essential public service. It is also one of the first services affected by armed conflict, disaster or other emergencies, and one of the last to receive …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) celebrates its 50 years of presence in Malaysia. The year 2022 is a significant milestone for Malaysia, which is home to the first regional office …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) recently participated in the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Workshop on Preventive Diplomacy for Sustaining Peace and underlined the importance of …
In exceptional cases, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) issues one-way emergency travel documents for humanitarian purposes to people who do not possess a passport or other …
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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.
