ICRC President: Speech to UNGA High-Level Event ICRC President: Speech to High-Level Event on the Situation of the Rohingya Minority in Myanmar. As delivered. In late June this year I visited ICRC …
ICRC President: Speech to UN General Assembly event on Universal Health Coverage in Emergencies Across the ICRC's operations, whether in Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, Ukraine or Nigeria we are seeing …
ICRC statement to the High-level plenary meeting to commemorate the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons The International Committee of the Red Cross (the ICRC) is very …
Thirty years after the Bougainville crisis ended, the women of Central Bougainville still bear the emotional scars of the ten year conflict. Many of them lost husbands, sons, nephews and fathers. The …
This short but dynamic comic is adapted from the video animation The red cross, red crescent and red crystal. What do they mean? In one word: protection. It intends to help people better understand …
26-09-2018 Signing ceremony of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons New York – The President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer today issued a stark …
Speech given by Mr. Peter Maurer, President of the ICRC, at the signing ceremony of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. 26 September 2018, UN, New York. Fourteen months ago, 122 States …
ICRC President: speech to UNGA event on the protection of civilians and respect for IHL Dear colleagues, there is perhaps no greater concern for the ICRC than the protection of civilians and ensuring …
26-09-2018 Speech to UNGA event on the protection of civilians and respect for international humanitarian law New York – Speaking today at an UN General Assembly event on the protection of civilians, …
ICRC president: Speech to UN General Assembly high-level event on Syria In conflicts across in the Middle East we are witnessing the devastating and senseless human cost of indiscriminate warfare 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.
