27-09-2020 Delegates representing the Government of Yemen and Ansar Allah have agreed to immediately release a first group of 1,081 conflict-related detainees and prisoners, in accordance with the …
Statement Statement to "The Humanitarian Impact of Combined Conflict, Climate and Environmental Risks," High-level Event on the margins of the 75th United Nations General Assembly co-organized by the …
The Guidelines on the Protection of the Natural Environment in Armed Conflict set out rules and recommendations relating to the protection of the natural environment under international humanitarian …
On 23 September 2020, the Office of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General, UNICEF, Generation Unlimited, the International Telecommunication Union, and UNDP convened the High-Level event …
In the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak in Kosovo, the ICRC mission in Kosovo had to change the course of its actions. This included aiding families of missing persons and the most affected communities. …
Statement Statement to Virtual High-Level Side Event during the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on the Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen, convened by the European Commission and the …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and 13 humanitarian organizations, including UNICEF, Medecins Sans Frontieres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, World Food Programme, …
Adnan Hamad, 47, from Syria showed up to his routine wound care and check-up at the ICRC ward in Rafik Hariri University Hospital (RHUH) in Beirut, Lebanon. Diagnosed with type 2 diabetes when he was …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) mission in Seoul launched a campaign to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Korean War (1950-1953) and raise awareness of its presence and …
Geneva (ICRC) – In an effort to boost a health system devastated by war, the Red Cross and Red Crescent family on the 20 September, opened a free treatment centre for COVID-19 patients in Yemen, …
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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.
