Last year, an ICRC team reached Dammaj, a town in northern Yemen, to deliver medical supplies and evacuate 164 casualties. This was an example of the need to respect medical personnel and facilities …
In late August, 150 academics, military personnel, students and media and legal practioners convened at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) for a two-day conference on international …
26-09-2014 The International Committee of the Red Cross is appealing to all parties involved in the Syria and Iraq conflicts to uphold the fundamental principle of human dignity, to spare the …
Lisichansk, Lugansk Oblast. Displaced people receive freshly baked bread from the Lisichansk branch of the Ukrainian Red Cross. The flour for this bread was provided by the ICRC. ©ICRC/GUTMAN, Amnon …
Rubavu Prison, Rwanda, 22 July 2014. The front gate. © ICRC / Nadia Shira Cohen Rubavu Prison, Rwanda, 22 July 2014. Rubavu prison has a unique internal arrangement, whereby inmates take on various …
30-09-2014 Members of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) and of the High Council for the Unity of Azawad (HCUA) are attending an ICRC course on international humanitarian law …
The ICRC's operational priorities in North and Central America focus on the protection of and assistance to communities and individuals most vulnerable to and a ffected by armed violence; in …
On September 30, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the EU Institute for Security Studies hosted a colloquium on the theme of "Women and Armed Conflicts and the issue of Sexual …
02-10-2014 Cairo (ICRC) –Twenty members of the Salafi Call, a clerical group, recently took part in a round table jointly organized by the group and the International Committee of the Red Cross …
02-10-2014 Kiev/Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply distressed by the killing of one of its staff, Laurent DuPasquier, in Donetsk today. The 38-year-old …
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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.
