37th round table on current issues of international humanitarian law: Conduct of hostilities: the Practice, the Law and the Future, Sanremo, 4 - 6 September 2014. Article by Laurent Gisel, legal …
We have continued to work across Nigeria in states where armed conflict and other situations of violence persist. More than 1.9 million people are internally displaced in the North-East alone while …
26-12-2007 Article, International Law Forum, University of Jerusalem, by Cordula Droege. International human rights law and international humanitarian law are traditionally two distinct branches of …
The archives of humanitarian coordination bodies set up jointly with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (the former "League"), National Societies or other …
Cases, documents and teaching materials on contemporary practice in international humanitarian law. A selection of nearly three hundred case studies provides university professors, practitioners and …
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 …
The meeting covered grounds and procedures for internment, and transfers of detainees from one authority to another. This second in-depth meeting examined relevant protections drawn from a variety of …
As part of continuing reflections on the legal and ethical issues raised by autonomous weapons systems, the ICRC convened a round-table meeting in Geneva from 28 to 29 August 2017 to explore the …
32nd International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, Geneva, Switzerland, 8-10 December 2015. Document prepared by the International Committee of the Red Cross This is the fourth report …
Over 41 per cent of health-care workers reported having experienced some form of violence in the last two months , with verbal violence, false accusations and stigmatisation being the more commonly …
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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.
