11-08-2017 Manila (ICRC) – The ongoing conflict in Marawi City in Lanao del Sur province has displaced thousands of people, with more than 77,000 [1] fleeing to hard-to-reach areas along the eastern …
11-08-2017 Geneva/Manila (ICRC) – The ICRC, in partnership with the Philippine Red Cross (PRC), has just completed an aid distribution among 7,000 displaced people in Tamparan municipality, an area …
The affection Soaka* still had for her son was clear. Stepping from a Correctional Services bus in Kinabot, East New Britain, Rabbie* extended his right hand. Soaka ignored the gesture and went …
Like other traders his age, 19-year-old Souleymane has sold his wares in several market fairs in the Gao region. In 2016, his life took a turn for the worse when he ended up with an amputated right …
War surgery consists of treating victims of armed conflicts and violence who were injured by weapons. From 10 to 23 May 2017, 50 medical doctors, who were undergoing specialized surgical training, …
15-08-2017 Beijing/Ulaanbaatar (ICRC) – A three-day training course on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) aiming at boosting the regional coordination in humanitarian response, opens today in …
Two convicts start their working day in the Niébé fields. CC BY-NC-ND / ICRC / Sidi B. Diarra Niébé, this bean originally from Western Africa, grows on 05 hectares (12.5 acres) of the penitentiary …
Approximately one third of the people living in Deim Zubeir are displaced from Raja, Korogana and Sopo. They live in makeshift camps and came with very little. Some have moved up to three times …
With over 20 million reliant on aid, Yemen is the world's single largest humanitarian crisis. Now it's in the grip of a deadly cholera outbreak. On 5 May, the Ministry of Health and Population in …
The group photo of lecturers and participants of “International Humanitarian Law Summer Session”, jointly held by Handong Global University and the ICRC, 8-11 August 2017 in Pohang (Republic of …
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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.
