19-10-2015 Damascus (ICRC/SARC) – The Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), together with the United Nations, have delivered lifesaving medical …
In Myanmar, the ICRC works hard to re-establish contact between detainees and their families, regardless of what community they belong to. This is the story of two mothers in Rakhine state, Myanmar, …
More than 1.5 million people have been displaced by the ongoing conflict in Yemen. ICRC distributed food, hygiene and household items to 35,000 people in Al-Hashwah and Sahar districts of Saada, in …
22-10-2015 Geneva / Sana'a – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply concerned about the humanitarian impact of increasingly intense fighting in the city of Taiz, where there …
When fighting broke out in her village in Blue Nile State, Sudan, Leila was on foot to her grandmother's house. Much to the dismay of her family, she didn't come home, so her father eventually turned …
On 22 October, the ICRC and the Geneva Academy organized a conference to discuss the efforts made to prevent violations of the law in armed conflict. The event was part of the programme of the 2015 …
On 22 October, the ICRC and the Geneva Academy organized a conference to discuss the efforts made to prevent violations of the law in armed conflict. The event was part of the programme of the 2015 …
Sent back to Guatemala after being caught by police in Mexico, Guatemalan migrants arrive at the border with little more than the clothes they are wearing. The Guatemalan Red Cross works to make the …
For many who make dangerous sea crossings, or walk hundreds of kilometres towards Europe, their first concern is finding safety. On the Greek island of Lesbos, in a makeshift camp outside a 'first …
Statement On 26 October the Sudanese newspaper Al Intibaha published an article mentioning that a Red Cross plane landed in Kauda, South Kordofan, Sudan to deliver assistance. The ICRC would like to …
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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.
