Of Cambodia’s total population, close to 150,000 people are said to be living with disabilities. While some lost their limbs to landmines, others were affected by the armed conflicts. There are also …
05-06-2018 Addis Ababa, 1 June 2018: The African Union (AU) Commission and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) organized the third annual Roundtable on the Operationalization of the …
Speech by the ICRC President at the Shangri-La Dialogue, Singapore, 2 June 2018 Relocated families receiving aid in Cox's Bazar. CC BY-NC-ND / ICRC / Sheikh Mehedi Morshed I'm pleased to address you …
Beijing (ICRC) – President Peter Maurer of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) left Beijing today at the end of an official visit to China, during which he had talks with the highest …
The ICRC has produced "Towards Humane Prisons: A Principled and Participatory Approach to Prison Planning and Design" which can be ordered here . This publication aims to encourage careful thought …
31-05-2018 Jerusalem/Geneva (ICRC) – To help with an overwhelming rise in medical needs in Gaza, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is sending two surgical teams, additional medical …
More than 4,500 people are still missing in relation to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Their families live with the anguish of not knowing the fates of their loved ones. The desperation to receive …
Prominent Indonesian Islamic scholar Sheikh Fakhruddin Lahmuddin, a lecturer at Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN), Ar-Raniry, Banda Aceh, was among the 80 participants at the IHL Regional Arabic Course …
Participating teams presenting their arguments at the quarter finals. Enguday Meskele, an IHL Lecturer at the Wolaita Sodo University and a judge at the quarter and semi- finals commented on the …
25-05-2018 Yangon (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Myanmar is aware of reports that the Arakan Army wishes to discuss handing over three Myanmar Army soldiers they are …
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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.
