"Interoperability" was an issue that generated considerable debate during the negotiation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM). This term refers to the ability of armed forces or other State …
05-04-1950 Article, International Review of the Red Cross, - Supplement, Vol. III, No. 4. International Committee of the Red Cross to the High Contracting Parties, Signatory to the Geneva Conventions …
31-12-1996 Article, International Review of the Red Cross, No. 315. Statement of the ICRC at the United Nations General Assembly, 51st session, 19 October 1996. A great deal has occurred this year in …
General Debate on all disarmament and international security agenda items. United Nations, General Assembly, 67th session, First Committee, statement by the ICRC, New York, 16 October 2012. …
31-12-2004 Article, International Review of the Red Cross, No. 856, by Louis Maresca. A new protocol on explosive remnants of war by Louis Maresca The author is Legal Adviser, Mines-Arms Unit, Legal …
19-01-2022 A sophisticated cyber security attack against computer servers hosting information held by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was detected this week. The attack …
Statement Statement by the ICRC President Peter Maurer at Afghanistan Economic Conference, Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan — 19 January 2022 Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen: Thank you for the …
18-01-2022 After 20 years of visits to detainees at Guantanamo Bay detention camp, the International Committee of the Red Cross is calling for accelerated efforts by the US government to transfer all …
One of the most significant obstacles encountered in the search for missing migrants is the lack of compatibility of data gathered by different actors. This dataset has been formulated as a means to …
Statement As the conflict in northern Ethiopia continues to evolve, hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced, putting enormous strain on the region’s health-care system and medical staff. …
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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.
