Migrants endure great physical and emotional hardship. The ICRC and Red Cross Societies in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador are encouraging migrants to take measures to look after their …
The olive harvest season is traditionally a joyous time for Palestinians, an occasion for families to get together and celebrate. However, as more farmers face restrictions on access to their land, …
Armed violence in the Kasai Region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) over the past year has displaced thousands of families. Many of these Congolese families fled into the neighbouring …
The ICRC and The National Press Club, together with the Malaysian Red Crescent (MRC), recently announced the six winners of the 2017 Young Humanitarian Writers Competition. The competition, themed …
Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction, 4–8 …
The “Ability Sports Festival” brought together over 400 disabled sportspeople and children from across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for a mega sporting meet organized by the International Committee of the Red …
04-12-2017 Kyiv (ICRC) – Twenty years have passed since the adoption in Ottawa, Canada of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines …
Thirty university students from nine English-speaking African countries came together to participate in the 17th edition of the All Africa International Humanitarian Law Competition in Arusha, …
On 28 November, as part of a two-day symposium entitled "War in Cities", the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and the Swiss …
Aldin Karavdić was tending a herd of goats close to his family's home when he stepped on a landmine. The 16-year-old suffered severe injuries, especially to his right leg – luckily, doctors were able …
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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.
