17-04-2018 Kuwait (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross together with Ministry of Defense of Kuwait held a three-day meeting to discuss the Proportionality Principle in International …
About 70% of the detainees in the temporary detention facilities in Kyrgyzstan now have access to regular medical care. And these figures will continue to grow. Before 2014, those detained in …
Universal meeting of national committees and similar bodies on IHL (NCIHL) International humanitarian law (IHL) affords protection to people and property in armed conflict, but only if its rules are …
"A part of my agony vanished that day. For so many years I had worried where he was, if he was hungry, if he was cold. Now at last I know where he is." The words of a Milka Budimrović after her …
From 10 to 11 April 2018, the ICRC regional delegation for the Russian Federation, Belarus and Moldova, together with the Federal Archival Agency of the Russian Federation, gathered archivists from …
13-04-2018 Bangui/Geneva (ICRC) – The trauma unit at a major hospital in the Central African Republic is filled to capacity after an outbreak of fighting in the capital, where ambulances transporting …
Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, statement of the ICRC The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is …
International humanitarian law (IHL) affords protection to people and property in armed conflict, but only if its rules are properly recognized, clearly understood and fully complied with, when and …
The Empress Shôken Fund is named after Her Majesty the Empress of Japan, who proposed – at the 9th International Conference of the Red Cross – the creation of an international fund to promote relief …
As many as 21 volunteers of the Malaysian Red Crescent Society (MRCS) converged in the small town of Beaufort, Sabah, roughly 90 km from the capital city of Kota Kinabalu. For three days, they …
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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.
