Statement Eighth Review Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on …
As an ICRC delegate, who has been working for the organization for 16 years, Thomas Russell, cooperation coordinator in the Regional Delegation of East Asia, tells us a story about recusing a wounded …
The IHL Role Play Competition 2016 will be hosted by the ICRC and the National University of Malaysia (UKM) from the 9 th to the 11 th of November. In its second year, the Competition has drawn 14 …
Mexico (ICRC - IFRC) – Representatives of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement have adopted a declaration in response to an increased indifference by governments and society to the …
Many people have had to flee their homes because of the conflict in Ukraine . The ICRC is helping them, working in cooperation with local Red Cross branches and local authorities. From January to …
Fifteen students from across Ethiopia celebrated their graduation from a three-year programme at the Orthopaedic Vocational and Educational Training College (OTVETC) in Addis Ababa earlier this …
Zamzam Murshed Zamzam and her three children are displaced. They have taken up residence in her old father’s tent. In the absence of a breadwinner, their living conditions are very hard. “My husband …
BBC recently visited the Al-Shikhan hospital, once a daily health-care provider now a medical facility on the frontline. Watch the video on the BBC website: …
As global levels of forced displacement reach a record high, a two-day conference in London asked how lessons from the past can help find solutions to the present crisis. An estimated 65 million …
Journalists from across East Asia discussed challenges to responsible and humanitarian journalism in the age of new media during a two-day meeting in Dhaka. The October event was organized by the …
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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.
