12-11-2021 Glasgow – The African Development Bank and the ICRC said at the COP26 climate conference that low-income countries hit by conflict must not be pushed aside when it comes to climate action …
An electronic application is improving the quality of health care for children under five years old. ALMANACH, short for the Algorithm for the Management of Childhood Illness, is a user-friendly …
During the event “Water Scarcity: A Challenge to Sustainable Development in the Arab Region” the ICRC will lead the session “The Management of Scarce Water Resources during Protracted Armed …
This documentary series is about people who survived accidents of landmines and explosive remnants of war. The first film of the documentary series follows Sose Grigoryan, a landmine survivor as …
Dr. Abdikadir Haji Maalim, a surgeon at Madina hospital in the operating theatre attending to a weapon-wounded patient. Madina hospital sees most of the casualties of car bombs, shoot-outs, grenade …
08-11-2021 Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross presented its final report on forensic work to identify the remains of Argentine soldiers in the Falkland Islands (Malvinas). …
The Sixth Review Conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) , to be held from 13 to 17 December 2021 in Geneva, is a key moment for High Contracting Parties to take stock of, …
ICRC's Rwanda delegation held its fifth Annual National Moot Court Competition on International Humanitarian Law (IHL). The event, jointly organized by the ICRC, the Schools of Law and the Rwanda …
Statement Statement by the International Committee of the Red Cross on the Special Meeting of the Counter Terrorism Committee commemorating the 20th anniversary of the adoption of Security Council …
In the third quarter of 2021, our work in Venezuela focused on addressing the needs of those people most affected by armed violence, particularly those caught up in the clashes that broke out between …
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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.
