Since its initial outbreak in China in December 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc around much of the world. The pandemic has hit those living in conflict-affected countries particularly …
The ICRC has been working in Iraq continuously since 1980 to address the humanitarian consequences of war and other situations of violence. While it continued to respond to needs generated by decades …
Almost five months after the beginning of the fighting in Tigray, people continue to flee their homes in search of safety. Every day, newly displaced people arrive to the main towns, where they stay …
Showcase your ideas on the protection of civilians against the dangers posed by military cyber operations by entering our essay competition. Essay question Which measures – technical, policy, legal, …
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Statement Damascus – Ten years of crisis in Syria has left an estimated 11.5 million people living with the risk of landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW). With swathes of the country turned …
In the last three years, the Gaza Strip has seen around one accident caused by explosive remnants of war every month. The large number of weapons that have been leftover in the Gaza Strip conflict as …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is worried by the recent surge of violence in Palma, Cabo Delgado Province of Mozambique. The most recent round of clashes, which started on March …
Tokyo (ICRC) – The United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, which has been held every five years since 1995, was organized this year in Kyoto, Japan, from 7 to 12 March. …
Nassima Nassima, a forty-year-old mother of two (Jana, 8 years and Moussa, 5 years), says: “My husband, who works abroad, used to send us money just to make ends meet and I used to borrow from …
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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.
