In this position paper, the ICRC presents its views on cyber operations and international humanitarian law (IHL). The use of cyber operations during armed conflicts is a reality. While only a few …
On 26 and 27 November 2019, the ICRC mission in Kosovo, in cooperation with the Islamic Community of Kosovo, organized a regional Workshop on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and Islamic Law. The …
The New Delhi delegation hosted a series of programmes to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions. These events coincided with the visit of Eva Svoboda, Deputy Director for …
Geneva/Beni (ICRC) – The ICRC has been providing medicines and other essential medical supplies to health-care facilities around Beni to help deal with the influx of patients caused by a …
The Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, the Spanish Medical Colleges Organization, the Spanish Red Cross and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), will …
Every year, the International Committee of the Red Cross brings together journalists, influencers and innovative communicators from across the Asia Pacific to learn from each other on where our work …
Aster Negasi had a dream of becoming a physician to relieve people of their pain after completing her schooling. But her childhood dream was interrupted at the age of 14 when she joined the Tigray …
— International Humanitarian Law Moot Court in its 13th year The "trials" started on time on 23 November 2019 at Xi'an, north-west China's Shaanxi province. As a young counsel cited articles from …
Fourth Review Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personal Mines and Their Destruction Statement by Dr. …
Coimbra, Portugal (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is joining forces with the University of Coimbra in Portugal and the Portuguese Red Cross Society to co-organize a …
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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.
