By Erika Tovar Gonzalez, Media Delegate, ICRC South Sudan JUBA, South Sudan —The landscape below is a collage of blue and green, rivers bleeding into swamps. It is hard to imagine how people could …
Ketsia at Tongogara Refugee Camp in eastern Zimbabwe. Ketsia Kahozi Bizvii is desperate to find her two brothers and sister – Kevin, Jonathan and Asnath. The 17-year-old has not heard from them since …
ICDPPC 2018 Side Event in Brussels in association with the ICRC, VUB Brussels Privacy Hub and the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs VIDEO : …
International humanitarian law (IHL) is undoubtedly shaped by States and other armed actors. At the same time, numerous scholars, researchers and professors contribute their ideas on what the law is …
Nurses are the first point-of-contact for patients coming into the emergency department, many of whom require urgent medical intervention. This is why developing the capacity of nurses is crucial for …
26-10-2018 Belgrade/Pristina (ICRC) – Close to 20 years have passed since the armed conflict in Kosovo but as many as 1,647 families are still waiting for answers about their loved ones who are …
Speech of ICRC Vice President Gilles Carbonnier at the 8th Xiangshan Forum Let me first thank the organizers for inviting the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to the 8th Beijing …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Sudanese Red Crescent Society (SRCS) have provided humanitarian assistance to families in Tawila Locality, North Darfur. Many of them were …
Statement by the ICRC at the United Nations General Assembly Statement by the ICRC at the United Nations General Assembly, 73rd session, Third Committee, agenda item 74(b) The International Committee …
29-10-2018 Beirut – Her Royal Highness The Grand Duchess of Luxembourg paid visit to Rafik Hariri University Hospital this week on a humanitarian visit to learn from the experience of RHUH, ICRC 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.
