For two years, Imam Nazar and his wife Marjan thought their son had died after unidentified men mysteriously took him away from their home. Overwhelmed with sadness, Naqibullah's parents could not …
Reflections on the Humanitarian Project Plan on the Falkland/Malvinas Islands The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Permanent Mission of the Argentine Republic and the Permanent …
Statement ICRC Statement to the United Nations Security Council Open Debate on “Peace and Security in Africa: Strengthening peacekeeping operations in Africa” Mr. President, thank you for giving the …
The family of Kholwani Mathuthu in their home in Gwanda district. The family opened a tracing request with the ICRC field officers to search for their son who went missing when traveling to South …
Event Video Event Information This conference, organized alongside the All-European International Humanitarian and Refugee Law Moot Court Competition, looked into how migrants and refugees are …
20-11-2018 Geneva (ICRC) – Should a weapon system be able to make its own “decision” about who to kill? The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) believes that the answer is no, and today …
It was an ordinary morning in Kunming, Yunnan Province, when students at Longxiang Elementary school suddenly found themselves under attack from four "terrorists" armed with machetes. The school …
Members of parliament are instrumental in ensuring that international humanitarian law (IHL) is properly implemented under their domestic legal system. Parliamentarians play a unique role in adapting …
A moving short film portraying the reality facing women in war zones is among those being screened at a London film festival, to make a stand against sexual violence in conflict. The two-day event, …
Facts and figures: January – September 2018 Imagine you are three years old, playing outside with your older brother. All of a sudden everything is confusing: people running, in panic, screaming, …
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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.
