For 70 years international humanitarian law (IHL) has sought to limit the consequences of war and protect people in conflict zones. But in an age of changing warfare, is IHL still fit for purpose? …
Group photo of seminar attendants from the AU Member States, experts, the UN Agencies, AU partners and the ICRC. Samuel HABTEAB/ICRC Wars are being fought in cities, towns and villages. Missiles. …
Statement Statement by the ICRC to the United Nations General Assembly, 74th session, Fourth Committee. General debate on the comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping operations in …
For a period of eleven weeks, from 14 November 2019 to 30 January 2020, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), supported by the European Union (EU) and in collaboration with the …
Displacement is one of the dramatic features of armed conflicts today. As the world becomes more urbanized, people are increasingly displaced between or within cities, sometimes for prolonged period …
Statement Statement to the Meeting of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be Deemed to be Excessively …
In Senegal, many families are suffering because they are plunged into uncertainty after the disappearance of a close party on the path of migration. In addition to the need to know the fate of …
The 3rd edition of Asian and Pacific Conference on Prison Health Manila (ICRC) – With the Asia and Pacific region having over four million prisoners—the highest in the world according to the latest …
On 6 November 2019, ICRC in collaboration with the Defense Command and Staff College, has conducted a one-day training on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) to 75 high-ranking trainee military …
In a first of its type, a group of 40 Islamic scholars, academicians, legal experts, medical and humanitarian practitioners got together in a two-day round table to deliberate upon Islam and …
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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.
