16-12-2016 The tenth meeting of the coordination mechanism for clarifying the fate and whereabouts of people who have been missing since the conflicts of the 1990s and August 2008 and their aftermath …
Mamadou (right) is seen in this picture with his wife Kadhy. He was 55 years old when he went missing in 2006. His wife still keeps her husband's carpenter tools, which she shows laid out on a mat. …
Fifth Review Conference of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or …
Speech given by Mr. Peter Maurer, President of the ICRC. Launch of the Handbook 'Management of limb injuries during disasters and conflicts' For the millions of people who are trapped within the …
17-12-2016 Geneva/Damascus (ICRC) - Thousands of people including women, children, the sick and injured, remain trapped in eastern Aleppo city waiting for the evacuation operation to continue. They …
When natural or man-made disasters strike, people's lives are at stake often resulting in loss of life, serious injuries and even some who go missing. This adds to the distress of the people affected …
Umar Saleh Abdo, 40 years old, originally from Somalia “Conflict forced me to flee home seeking safety. I had hoped for a chance to travel abroad through Yemen, but it was in vain. Eventually, I got …
19-12-2016 ICRC Geneva / Kabul - A member of staff working for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been abducted in Afghanistan. It happened around 11am local time, on Monday …
Six entries stood out at the 2016 Young Humanitarian Writers Competition (YHWC) among over 150 other entries in both English and Bahasa Malaysia. Themed "The Power of Humanity", the competition was …
Annual meeting of the Corporate Support Group issues call for new partnerships to drive innovation and find solutions. To innovate, you need to collaborate. And at a time of increasing complexity and …
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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.
