On 22 and 23 October 2019, Rwanda held its fourth Annual National Moot Court Competition on International Humanitarian Law (IHL). The event brought together fifteen law students from five Rwandan …
05-12-2019 Juba (ICRC) – Twenty-nine people suffering gunshot wounds from intercommunal clashes in Western Lakes State have been evacuated by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) by …
Fact sheet describing the role that National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies can play with regard to the national implementation of international humanitarian law. ADVISORY SERVICE ON IHL RED …
In the province of Kasai, the ethnic violence that once ignited the Kakenge region is over, thanks to an initiative led by a group of women. But the path to peace was long, difficult and fraught with …
Mohammad Abu Kamil, 30, is a person with a disability. On Gaza’s port, he discusses how persons with disabilities should be treated in public spaces with some friends and acquaintances. Abed …
04-12-2019 Pretoria/Geneva (ICRC) – Armed violence in Mozambique's northernmost province Cabo Delgado is forcing scores of people from their homes, destroying villages and health centres, and making …
Players and coaches attending the workshop discuss skills and technique in one of the sessions. ©BIS Sangita Majhi, a student of class 12, has been living with spinal cord injury for seven years. She …
Statement Statement to United Nations Security Council Briefing on UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) As delivered by Mr. Robert Mardini, Permanent Observer to the UN and Head of Delegation, ICRC …
03-12-2019 Geneva (ICRC) – With the goal of increasing sports opportunities and societal acceptance for people with disabilities, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is in the midst …
ICRC has been a reference in many aspects of prison's health and nutrition. In the last 10 years, healthcare in detention programs grew significantly in the Arabic countries, and today, ICRC …
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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.
