IHL - The Law in Practice is a new educational video resource that explores the ICRC's mission and mandate and provides a clear explanation of the role that the ICRC plays in the development and …
The ICRC has striven to help the most vulnerable people. It currently operates from four offices in Libya – Tripoli in the West, Misrata in the Centre, Benghazi in the East and Sabha in the South – …
Statement Speech by Gilles Carbonnier, vice-president, on behalf of the ICRC president I take the floor today on behalf of the ICRC, IFRC and the National Societies that are part of the Red Cross and …
Statement President's address to the Human Rights Council 2019 A few weeks ago I visited Mosul, the site of an emblematic battle in the war in Iraq. The physical destruction was immense, and while …
"The quickest way for a patient to die in trauma surgery is from a bleeding artery, because the blood is being pumped out of the artery at high pressure." John Wolfe knows full well that every second …
January to December 2018 The five year conflict in South Sudan left many humanitarian consequences that will last. The conflict has claimed innumerable lives and left millions forcibly displaced from …
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the International Committee of the Red Cross promotes respect for international humanitarian law and helps people affected by the conflict and violence, often …
Fikadu Hailu had spent his entire life in the Yaso district of Benishangul Gumuz Region, in western Ethiopia, along with his wife and nine children. A farmer by trade, the 60-year-old cultivated …
25-02-2019 Geneva – The United Nations and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement today pledged to step up action to prevent, end and respond to sexual and gender-based violence in and …
Statement Speech by ICRC President The world is facing a grave protection failure: the failure to address the enormous harm caused by sexual and gender-based violence. The International Red Cross and …
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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.
