From 9 to 11 April 2019, the Arab Union of Forensics and Toxicology (AUFT) held its 10th international conference: Humanitarian Forensics – Education, Training and Practice. The event was organized …
The Fund The Empress Shôken Fund is named after Her Majesty The Empress of Japan, who proposed – at the 9th International Conference of the Red Cross – the creation of an international fund to …
"When the prisoners of war finally saw the plane, and they went up, that's when the excitement got a little bit contagious. It was just something you couldn't envision, people being prisoners in …
11-04-2019 Caracas/Geneva (ICRC) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has completed a five-day visit to Venezuela as the organization looks to ramp up its …
Snapshots are helping people in South Sudan find their loved ones We all love pictures: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat are full of them. We use them to laugh, remember, create, complain, …
We recently visited Baghanis an Armenian village located just one and a half kilometers away from the border with Azerbaijan. We arrived in the village during the day and found the earthen streets …
05-04-2019 Caracas (ICRC) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer, is making a five-day visit to Venezuela from 6 to 10 April. Maurer will view the ICRC's …
In Armenia, the ICRC focuses on providing civilians living along the international border, missing persons and their families, mine victims and people deprived of their liberty with assistance. In …
Newly-recruited soldiers are interacting with the ICRC during field-based training exercises here in the UK – ahead of likely encounters when deployed overseas. A key priority for the ICRC's …
Documentaire "The ghosts of Rwanda" offers the rare and personal testimony of Philippe Gaillard, head of the ICRC delegation in Kigali, during the genocide in Rwanda. This movie is not about the …
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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.
