Statement Jerusalem (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply troubled that its humanitarian convoy in Gaza City came under fire on Tuesday. The ICRC reminds the parties …
07-11-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – One month on, civilians in Gaza and Israel are being forced to endure tremendous suffering and loss. This needs to stop. With a military siege in place, people in Gaza are …
Key Facts and Figures 07 October – 06 November 2023 One month on, civilians pay the heavy price of intense violence Renewed hostilities in Israel and Gaza –unprecedented in scale and intensity– …
November 7th marked one month since the first of a series of three earthquakes - with a magnitude of 6.3 - and multiple aftershocks, jolted the western Afghan province of Herat. The earthquakes were …
06-11-2023 Geneva (ICRC) - A convoy of four ambulances transporting patients from Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza city arrived at the Rafah crossing at the border with Egypt on Monday. Two vehicles …
According to international humanitarian law (IHL), health establishments and units, including hospitals, should not be attacked. This protection extends to the wounded and sick as well as to medical …
A chance to take international humanitarian law out of the classroom and into the real world. During the week of 16–20 October 2023, the seventeenth edition of the "Yachay" regional human rights …
The risks and opportunities presented by artificial intelligence (AI) in conflict settings were laid bare at an event at Chatham House on Monday night. In the week when the UK is hosting an AI Safety …
The Florence Nightingale Medal is awarded to nurses who display exceptional courage and devotion to victims of armed conflict or natural disaster or to those who display exemplary service in the …
More than 80 senior military officers from more than 62 countries have convened in Nairobi at a high-level workshop on the laws of war and their application in military operations. The Senior …
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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.
