Addis Ababa / Geneva (ICRC) – A convoy carrying medicines and relief supplies from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS), organized in …
Statement Statement to the 75th United Nations General Assembly plenary meeting on "Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations" As delivered by Ms. …
10-12-2020 ICRC plants saplings in the memory of those who went missing during the conflicts in former Yugoslavia during 1990s Belgrade (ICRC) – To mark Human Rights Day, the International Committee …
The Rashtriya Raksha University (RRU) in Gujarat — an institution of national importance in India — and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Regional Delegation in New Delhi on 10 …
In the department of Logone-et-Chari, in the Far North Region of Cameroon, heavy rainfall has destroyed 70 per cent of the sorghum, bean and rice fields. Hopes are being washed away in a part of the …
Since 2014, the Lake Chad crisis has been spreading to the Far North Region of Cameroon, whose inhabitants have mostly fled inland in their hundreds of thousands to escape the appalling armed …
Stories of front-line workers braving the COVID-19 pandemic took centre stage in the Young Humanitarian Writers Competition this year. From medical personnel and police officers, to delivery riders …
Kabul, November 2020 — On a crisp, blue-skied November morning, the Ali Abad Orthopaedic Centre in Kabul – a sprawling compound catering to the needs of some of the most disadvantaged people in …
07-12-2020 Gaza City (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Palestinian Ministry of Waqf and Religious Affairs in Gaza have joined forces in a campaign to convince …
This webinar, organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Advisory Service on International Humanitarian Law (IHL), will be held twice: on Monday 7 December 2020 at 11:00-12:30 …
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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.
