The meeting covered grounds and procedures for internment, and transfers of detainees from one authority to another. This second in-depth meeting examined relevant protections drawn from a variety of …
23-10-2014 Addis Ababa (ICRC) – The African Union (AU) Commission and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) jointly held a seminar in Addis Ababa on 22 October on the protection of …
Children are suffering immensely in relation to the armed conflict in South Sudan. Boys and girls who are unlawfully recruited, used in hostilities or otherwise associated with armed forces or armed …
State representatives from 16 African countries gathered in Pretoria in September to reflect on the development of the law of war and the continued relevance of the Geneva Conventions. The …
Geneva/Damascus (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), working closely with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, yesterday delivered urgently needed food and other essential relief …
Cases, Documents and Teaching Materials on Contemporary Practice in International Humanitarian Law, by Marco Sassòli, Antoine A. Bouvier and Anne Quintin Browse online The ICRC's core publication on …
Addis Ababa (ICRC) – Seventeen health professionals completed a five-day seminar in Addis Ababa today on mental health in prisons. The aim of the training, organized jointly by the International …
Are you a doctor wondering how to interact with the media, or a nurse wondering how to treat patient information in difficult circumstances? Are you an ambulance driver unsure of what your …
28-10-2014 As the conflict in Afghanistan continues to take a heavy toll on civilians, the ICRC is carrying on with its work to improve the protection of medical services. "We are concerned by the …
Visiting detainees and protecting the civilian population The ICRC visits detainees in Afghanistan and other countries around the world to monitor the conditions in which detainees are held and the …
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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.
