How can universities help enhance respect for the impartial and safe provision of health care in conflicts and other emergencies? The ICRC has designed a tool to answer the question, in the form of a …
After looking at the legal challenges posed by the increasing development and use of new technologies in warfare, the Reseach and debate cycle on new technologies and the modern battlespace now …
The 24th of June 2014 was a day dedicated to the victims of armed conflicts in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the first Geneva Convention. On this occasion, the Geneva Academy of …
Factsheet on measures of national implementation regarding torture and other forms of ill-treatment. In particular th e following questions/topics are addressed : definition of torture and other …
Statement Third Review Conference of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, Maputo, 23-27 June 2014. …
Children kidnapped and trained as soldiers, girls snatched and forced to be “wives,” entire villages reduced to ash. Between 2008 and 2011, communities in Orientale province, northeast Democratic …
Dr Al-Murtaza Bin Zaid Al-Mohatary Al-Hasny talks about IHL and Islam from a Zaidiyya perspective. In many countries around the Arab world, the ICRC emblem is misunderstood, and seen as a symbol of …
Underfunded ICRC operations …
From January to June 2014, the ICRC: The ICRC served as a neutral intermediary in connection with the voluntary repatriation of two civilian internees to Armenia and to ensure that a prisoner of …
Biannual update on national implementation of international humanitarian law, July–December 2013 International Review of the Red Cross, Page 1 of 15. 10.1017/S1816383114000459 REPORTS AND DOCUMENTS …
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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.
