International Humanitarian Law at the National Level: Impact and Role ofNational Committees International Humanitarian Law at the National Level: Impact and Role ofNational Committees 12.8.2003 15:31 …
This new ICRC flipbook contains over 50 one-page techniques that use art, music or theatre to engage with different audiences. Imagine that you're in front of a group of forty people . In the next …
The ICRC, like many organizations across different sectors and regions, is grappling with the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning for its work. Since these are software …
This report provides an account of the discussions that took place during a meeting of experts organised by the ICRC in November 2018 on the potential human cost of cyber operations. Cyber attacks …
Debates about the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) have raised a number of questions with regard to the interpretation of some of its provisions. The ICRC is pleased to make …
28-03-2019 The ICRC reports on its main humanitarian concerns in the country Bogotá - Deteriorating security conditions in the country´s most remote areas; at least five ongoing internal armed …
An update from the ICRC on the conditions of migrants in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela. Venezuelans migrating into neighbouring countries often walk thousands of kilometers in search of …
Humanitarians are facing increasingly complex battlefields with an "explosion of movements and organisations", the ICRC's president has told a gathering at the University of London. Speaking at last …
If you've come to this page, it's because you either have, are interested in, or will be entering the competition. In a nutshell, the competition calls on students at accredited universities to …
Fikadu Hailu had spent his entire life in the Yaso district of Benishangul Gumuz Region, in western Ethiopia, along with his wife and nine children. A farmer by trade, the 60-year-old cultivated …
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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.
