Statement to UN Security Council Open Debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflict As delivered Madam President, esteemed colleagues, We thank Indonesia for its stewardship of this …
23-05-2019 Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, will play host to the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Europa League final from 25 to 29 May 2019. The International Committee of the Red …
Daniel is a hardworking man. While most people avoid stepping out in the burning sun, he chooses to work tirelessly on the land surrounding the physical rehabilitation centre supported by the ICRC in …
Martienus De Boer, deputy head of the regional delegation for Mexico and Central America 2018 will remain in the memory of many as the year in which thousands of migrants left their countries and …
Jordi Raich, head of the regional delegation for Mexico and Central America I arrived in Mexico at the beginning of 2018 to head up the regional delegation of the International Committee of the Red …
On the eve of the competition, competing students and their coaches from eight different universities interact with each other at an event organized at a hotel in Dessie city (north Ethiopia), where …
Manila (ICRC) – The deep scars left by the 2017 conflict in Marawi City , Lanao del Sur in southern Philippines, continue to haunt over 100,000 people who still do not have a home to return to. …
In 2018, the high levels of violence in Mexico continued to cause suffering and had serious humanitarian consequences. The violence resulted in people being killed (34,202 in 2018, i.e. 23.10 for …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Danish Red Cross, Novo Nordisk, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Centre for Global Chronic Conditions, the Permanent Mission of …
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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.
