23-04-2018 Geneva (ICRC) - The remains of another 22 people who went missing in connection with the 1992–93 armed conflict in Abkhazia have been identified and will be handed over to their families …
Statement Appeal to States, global leaders and citizens by Mr Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) appeals to …
Course description Organized by the ICRC and the French Red Cross, this immersive five-day course in international humanitarian law (IHL) is open to humanitarian practitioners who wish to become …
21-04-2018 Geneva / Sana'a (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross is deeply saddened by the fatal shooting today of one of its staff members in Yemen. Hanna Lahoud, a Lebanese …
Senior journalists from Xinhua News Agency (Xinhua), China Global Television Network (CGTN) and other media are invited to share their thoughts and experience as war journalists, including reporting …
19-04-2018 Beijing (ICRC) – The first-ever workshop on international humanitarian law (IHL) and the protection of journalists was organized in Beijing on 19 April 2018, with over 20 participants from …
The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina ended over 20 years ago. Many would assume that generations of young people born afterwards are not affected and less interested in the physical and emotional scars …
18-04-2018 Many more people are today affected by chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) than by communicable diseases. This is not reflected in resources for health in general and much less in …
Thirty-six years after the end of the conflict between Argentina and the United Kingdom, an ICRC forensic team went to the Falkland/Malvinas Islands to collect DNA samples from the remains of 122 …
International Humanitarian Law: A Comprehensive Introduction is a handbook that aims to promote and strengthen knowledge of international humanitarian law (IHL) among academics, weapon-bearers, …
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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.
