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 …
08-11-2019 Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply concerned for the civilian population in north-east Syria amid an ongoing shutdown of a key regional water …
08-11-2019 Juba (ICRC) - Following the decision to extend the pre-transitional period by 100 days, peace and stability remain more than ever the prerequisites to alleviate the suffering of millions …
There was nothing significantly different about 8 October 2005. It was just another day of running errands, doing chores at home, going to school, writing a test, working the fields, etc. Then the …
07-11-2019 Second and third place were given to a report on missing persons published by Época magazine and a special on the conflict in Syria that was aired by TV Bandeirantes São Paulo (ICRC) – The …
06-11-2019 Addis Ababa, 31 October 2019: The Peace and Security Department of the African Union Commission (AUC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), held the biennial seminar on …
―"Go for it!" This was Isangeli's husband´s response when she asked him what he thought about her training to become a baker. She had been keen to learn for a while, but didn't have the money to pay …
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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.
