Drafted for the first time with African states’ contribution Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions have been drafted with contributions from the newly independent African States for the …
The ICRC and the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) jointly organised a panel discussion on 4 October 2017 in New Delhi with the objective to provide an understanding of the use of new …
An empty orthopaedic centre in Afghanistan This training room has been devoid of patients since the 11 September tragic death of 38 year old ICRC physiotherapist Lorena Enebral Perez who was shot …
With this short film #NotATarget the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the European Commission want to address the widespread and severe impact of illegal and often violent acts …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is asking donors for more than 2 billion Swiss Francs to fund its field operations and headquarters in 2018. Our largest operations in terms of …
The effectiveness of international humanitarian law (IHL) faces challenges from different quarters. Parties may be unwilling to acknowledge that a situation of violence amounts to an armed conflict, …
An ICRC report published in Dec 2017 Migrants: Vulnerabilities & Protection report Publication 12.2017 Conference jointly organised by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the European …
A logo has been developed to represent the whole of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. This is an official logo that we will be using under certain circumstances, for example when …
20-12-2017 Manila (ICRC) – It has been almost two months since armed conflict ended in Marawi City but thousands of displaced people remain unable to return home and are in need of help and …
In October 2017, the ICRC helped reunite a seriously ailing woman from Donetsk with her daughter who lives in the south of Odesa region. Recently, our colleagues from the Odesa office visited 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.
