The conflict in Syria has severely affected the health-care system. When you are sick, how do you take care of yourself when it is difficult just to find a single tablet of aspirin? Every day, nine …
31-08-2015 International Committee of the Red Cross / International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies joint statement The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement has today …
31-08-2015 Bogotá / Geneva (ICRC) – The ICRC's Colombia delegation has launched a campaign entitled "Human beings, inside and outside," promoting decent conditions in the country's prisons. The ICRC …
01-09-2015 Manila (ICRC) – Over 60 years after ratifying the Geneva Conventions , the Philippines has achieved much progress in implementing international humanitarian law (IHL). The country is …
Geneva/Beijing (ICRC)– ICRC president Peter Maurer is today starting a three-day visit to China at the invitation of the Chinese government, to attend the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the …
Mubi, Nigeria. When the residents of Mubi in north-eastern Nigeria fled escalating violence in 2014, they left behind enough food reserves to live on. But with no-one to prevent the cattle from …
For many Burundians on the run from the violence in their country, Mahama Camp in Rwanda will be home until it is safe enough to go back to Burundi. As with any conflict, people are not just torn …
No one told the cows not to eat the corn. When Morris Yaji and his family fled escalating violence around their town in north-eastern Nigeria last year, the couple and their 10 children had enough …
Summer – usually a time for vacations, sun and hanging around with friends. But for one group of students, summer was a time for new things, in the form of studies and IHL. This July, for the second …
María. Inside since 14 April 2014. "My youngest son doesn't even know I'm in here. I try to be strong when we talk on the phone, but I can hardly speak. It's a very difficult situation for a mother." …
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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.
