On the eve of the competition, competing students and their coaches from eight different universities interact with each other at an event organized at a hotel in Dessie city (north Ethiopia), where …
Manila (ICRC) – The deep scars left by the 2017 conflict in Marawi City , Lanao del Sur in southern Philippines, continue to haunt over 100,000 people who still do not have a home to return to. …
In 2018, the high levels of violence in Mexico continued to cause suffering and had serious humanitarian consequences. The violence resulted in people being killed (34,202 in 2018, i.e. 23.10 for …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Danish Red Cross, Novo Nordisk, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Centre for Global Chronic Conditions, the Permanent Mission of …
On 8 May 2019, the ICRC with the University of the Philippines (UP) co-hosted in Manila the first meeting of the Board of Experts for the 'new and improved' Asia-Pacific Journal on International …
19-05-2019 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delivered a 100,000-euro cash donation to the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) and allocated another 300,000 euros for the National …
A new exhibition on Yemen has opened in Manchester showcasing objects and items from the war-torn country. Yemen: Inside a crisis seeks to explore how conflict has impacted the lives of Yemenis …
Dr Dimarin Dimatingcal is 63 and retirement is not a thought crossing his mind. There are also no off days or weekends in his books. For the last 25 years, every day Dr Dimatingcal has been walking …
Several years ago, young children were mesmerized by the appearance of a four-wheel drive vehicle that sped into their community with a group of armed men. The truck crisscrossed the main …
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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.