19-08-2024 ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric addresses the Tenth Conference of State Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty on World Humanitarian Day Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I …
19-08-2024 Today marks World Humanitarian Day. Last year was the deadliest on record for humanitarian workers globally, and 2024 is set to be worse. The following quote is attributed to ICRC …
Since 1992, the International Committee of the Red Cross has been working in Azerbaijan to help people affected by armed conflict and other violence. In the first half of 2024, we continued our …
The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Embassy of Switzerland in China jointly held a diplomatic event in Beijing on Aug. 12 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Geneva …
Speech by Balthasar Staehelin, the personal envoy of the ICRC president to China and head of the Regional Delegation for East Asia, at the event to mark the 75th Anniversary of the Geneva Conventions …
12-08-2024 In a speech at a media briefing on the 75th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric calls for the world to recommit to the framework for armed conflict that …
Speech given at media briefing on the 75th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions The Geneva Conventions are the foundational treaties of international humanitarian law and a remarkable success in …
On the 75th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, three African experts remind us of the ancestral traditions of humanity brought to bear during times of conflict. These traditions, which often …
12-08-2024 ICRC President issues a call to make the Geneva Conventions a political priority Geneva (ICRC) – On the 75 th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, the president of the …
In Ethiopia, pastoralism is widely practiced in the Somali and Afar Regional States, and to a lesser extent in Oromia and other regions of the country. Pastoral lowlands are characterized by …
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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.
