Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, questions relating to refugees, returnees and displaced persons and humanitarian questions. United Nations, General Assembly, 69th …
03-11-2014 One year after Super Typhoon Haiyan ripped through the Philippines, hundreds of thousands of people whose livelihoods were devastated are returning to work with the support of the …
Table of contents Editorial Restoring, regenerating, reintegrating: Livelihood support for the economically vulnerable Strengthening communities through livelihood assistance in the Mullaitivu and …
… Ethicality of Autonomous Weapons (Surrey, Burlington: Ashgate Publishing, 2009), pp. …
With the conflict in South Sudan prompting civilians to seek refuge in Ethiopia, and intercommunal violence generating internal displacement in different parts of the country, the ICRC and its …
Newsletter for the Friends of the ICRC; group of individuals with a personal commitment to our work. LOGISTICS: A CRUCIAL ELEMENT OF RAPID DEPLOYMENT The centre’s large Geneva warehouse stocks …
30-10-2014 Addis Ababa/Geneva (ICRC) – Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), today concluded a three-day visit to Ethiopia, during which he held talks with …
30-10-2014 Despite the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, acts of indiscriminate shelling and security incidents continue to put civilians at risk. The approaching winter makes the situation of both …
As armed conflict expands in Iraq, the ICRC is stepping up its humanitarian work. It has brought food and other aid to more than 1.5 million people since January. The expansion of armed conflict to …
Visiting detainees and protecting the civilian population The ICRC visits detainees in Afghanistan and other countries around the world to monitor the conditions in which detainees are held and 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.
