Sarajevo (ICRC) – A workshop titled Supporting and Strengthening Work with Relatives of Missing Persons will take place on 2 and 3 July 2019 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina . Organized by the …
28-06-2019 Yerevan/Baku (ICRC) – An Azerbaijani and an Armenian citizen were repatriated today in an operation carried out with the support of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The …
A four-day course to help raise awareness among key stakeholders on the importance of detention health as a public health issue was held from 25 to 28 June 2019 in Makati City. Customized for …
Generous natural light streaming into the rooms, walls painted in soothing colours, washrooms that provide privacy and a farming area – all these creative ideas were pitched by the architecture …
The leaflet "ICRC in Fortaleza" explains the work of the organization in Ceará, which began in 2018 to help respond to the humanitarian impacts of armed violence on the population. The organization …
27-06-2019 Juba/Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has facilitated the release of 15 persons detained in relation to the conflict in South Sudan . The operation marks …
27-06-2019 Food and essential household items have been delivered by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to the survivors of an attack on the village of Sobané Da in Central Mali . …
This year is the 70th Anniversary of the adoption of the Geneva Conventions. The Conventions were agreed with the reality of World War 2 fresh in people's minds and in universal recognition of …
Armed conflict and other emergencies spark an increased need for medical assistance, but attempts to provide health care often leave volunteers, facilities and patients vulnerable to violence. It is …
Since 2004, the ICRC Kuala Lumpur has been partnering with the local university to organize an International Humanitarian Law moot court competition where students argue to prosecute or defend 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.
