The families of people who went missing in connection with the conflict in Nepal from 1996 to 2006 cling to shreds of hope. They want to believe that their missing relatives will return one day. By …
The remote villages of Marcelo and Buhisan are located in different areas of the Philippines. Marcelo is in Negros Occidental province, central Philippines, while Buhisan lies in the province of …
16-10-2014 Geneva/Damascus (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), working closely with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and the Palestine Red Crescent Society, today delivered …
Statement United Nations, General Assembly, 69th session, Third Committee, item 27 of the agenda, statement by the ICRC, New York, 17 October 2014. As a group, women are not inherently vulnerable in …
United Nations, General Assembly, 69th session, Third Committee, item 64 of the agenda, statement by the ICRC, New York, 17 October 2014. The ICRC would first like to take this opportunity to welcome …
In September, fighting in and around the governorates of Quneitra and Dara'a intensified, displacing over 100,000 people to Damascus and Rural Damascus. Working closely with the Syrian Arab Red …
Over the past quarter century, the ICRC has been helping people detained in connection with the uprising of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna and those who were affected by the conflict between the Sri …
Ypres, Belgium Opening of the exhibition on WWI at the In Flanders Fields museum. Olivier Matthys / ICRC Ypres, Belgium Speech by Philippe Vandekerckhove, CEO of the Belgian Red Cross - Flanders, at …
Les Cayes civilian prison. A women’s section built by the ICRC in cooperation with Haiti’s Central Prison Administration. A toilet block was repaired and set up in the yard along with a laundry area …
An introduction to the basics of international humanitarian law for non-specialized audiences (eight modules) in French …
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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.
