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 …
The amputation of Faris' right leg has not slowed him down, and he has no intention of it setting him back now. Faris Ibrahim seldom shares his story, not for fear he will be judged, but because he …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is asking donors for 2.2 billion Swiss Francs to fund its field operations and headquarters in 2020. Our largest operations in terms of budget are: …
2nd Wheelchair Basketball Workshop with Myanmar Paralympic Sports Federation, Yangon "The starting point for anything you do is the passion in your heart. It's my job to bring this passion out on the …
02-12-2019 Juba, South Sudan (ICRC)—Eighty wheelchair basketball players, including—for the first time—15 women, from across South Sudan have gathered in Juba for three weeks of training led by two …
A doctor overseeing the condition of a patient who was shot by an explosive bullet. The x-ray image shows bone fragmentation in the patient’s leg. Abed ZAGOUT/ ICRC Paramedics evacuating an injured …
The main purpose of the study is to draw attention to the key role that IHL plays in addressing displacement and to influence law and policymaking among States and international and multilateral …
Cairo (ERC, ICRC) – In order to continue the joint humanitarian response and to mark the cooperation between the two institutions, the Egyptian Red Crescent Society (ERC) and the International …
Baghdad (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross deplores the use of violence and loss of life during the ongoing protests in Iraq . The rising number of casualties attests to patterns …
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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.
