15-09-2015 The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has forced many civilians to flee the areas where fighting is taking place and to seek refuge in more peaceful areas. With winter approaching, the ICRC and …
As part of its mandate, the ICRC supports the medical treatment of people wounded in armed conflict – without distinction. In Mindanao, this includes regular assistance to five hospitals and ad hoc …
Armed clashes that erupted between armed groups in February forced a large number of families to flee their homes in many municipalities of Maguindanao. Displaced civilians had to build makeshift …
Getting to Renibon in the municipality of Pigkawayan in North Cotabato entails at least an hour of driving through unpaved roads, and navigating streams and rivers. Largely populated by the Aromanen …
A conference report and a detailed program are available for download at the bottom of this page. On 16 and 17 September, the ICRC, the University of Exeter and the UK Arts and Humanities Research …
The lifeless body of a toddler found recently on a Turkish beach, whom the world would come to know as Aylan Kurdi, was from Kobane (Ain al-Arab), Syria. He is one of hundreds of Syrian and other …
Suffering does not change its face. It is as perennial as bloody human conflict. I saw that recently in Yemen. I met a man in the old city of Sana'a, the capital. A bomb had destroyed his home. And …
The ICRC has been present in Sri Lanka since 1989, responding to humanitarian needs resulting from the uprising of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna in the South, and thereafter, from the conflict …
16-09-2015 Abuja (ICRC) – The Red Cross began a two-day regional meeting in Abuja today aimed at improving its coordinated response to the Lake Chad crisis. Red Cross partners include the …
This livestreamed public event, held on 16 September gathered internationally recognized historians, academics and senior humanitarian practitioners to discuss the doctrine of humanitarian …
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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.
