Safer Access Practical Resource Pack (flyer)
The Safer Access Practical Resource Pack flyer highlights the purpose, benefit and contents of the pack. …
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Armed Violence and the New Urban Agenda: The ICRC's Recommendations for Habitat III
In many parts of the world, sustainable urban development is seriously hindered by armed conflict and chronic urban violence. This is a crucial consideration for the New Urban Agenda set out by …
Living with Absence: Helping the Families of the Missing
Many people go missing as a result of conflict, natural and man-made disasters, other humanitarian crises, and migration. Disappearance, dreadful enough for the individuals concerned, means anguish …
Health Care in Detention (Roll-ups)
The Health Care in Detention roll-ups seek to bolster respect for medical ethics in places of detention. Each roll-up represents a major ethical issue affecting detainees. These four roll-ups cover …
Safer Access: A Guide for All National Societies (includes 3 case studies)
This guide is designed to support National Societies in fulfilling their humanitarian mandate and roles, particularly when working in sensitive and insecure contexts including armed conflict, …
The domestic implementation of International Humanitarian Law (DVD version)
This manual (including links to Treaties and Commentaries database and National Implementation database) is a practical tool to assist policy-makers, legislators and other stakeholders worldwide in …
Forensic Science and Humanitarian Action
The ICRC provides advice, support and training for local authorities and forensic practitioners in searching for, recovering, analysing, identifying, and managing the remains of large numbers of …
Basic Emergency Care: approach to the acutely ill and injured
Developed by WHO and ICRC, in collaboration with the International Federation for Emergency Medicine, Basic Emergency Care (BEC): Approach to the acutely ill and injured is an open-access training …
The Ante-Mortem / Post-Mortem Database: An Information Management Application for Forensic Data
The proper management of forensic data is crucial for identifying human remains and resolving cases of disappearance. This brochure describes the AMPM Database, an electronic tool that facilitates …
International Humanitarian Law Bibliography, 2012 Edition
A compilation of the four quarterly IHL bibliographies issued by the ICRC Library during 2012. The bibliography is aimed at: - those who wish to expand their knowledge of IHL; - ICRC delegations, …
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ICRC library
Created in 1863, the ICRC library, alongside the ICRC archives, provides an indispensable documentary reference on the organization itself and international humanitarian law.
IHL treaties
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 IHL
Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.