The phone rings on a Friday afternoon. The ICRC’s contact on the ground in Torit, a town in the south of the country, has requested an evacuation of three children wounded by gunshots. They need to …
14-11-2017 Dakar/Geneva (ICRC) – The precarious security situation in Africa's Sahel region is overshadowing a massive humanitarian crisis affecting 12 million people in five countries, the …
13-11-2017 Kyiv (ICRC) – With cold weather approaching, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has increased its assistance to people still badly affected by the armed conflict in …
What happens when you give the residents of an informal settlement a chance to tell their own story through their own eyes? You get a better understanding of how they see themselves. This is exactly …
13-11-2017 Law students compete in the second national moot court competition On 13th and 14th November 2017, law students from around the country will square up in the second National Moot Court …
11-11-2017 A major conference has adopted a series of measures that will shape the efforts of the world's largest humanitarian movement to respond to the needs of people affected by crises. The …
The Afghan National Wheelchair Basketball team, sponsored by the International Committee of the Red Cross, participated in the 2017 IWBF Asia Oceania Championships from Oct. 21st -29th, 2017 in …
"It has been 24 years of sheer hell for my family. The first few years after he went missing, we did not know if my father was alive or dead. Once we heard about his death, we did not know where he …
Oct. 25, 2017, China Administration of Sport for Persons with Disabilities, Beijing. The Afghan national wheelchair basketball team, supported by the ICRC, are doing warm-up exercises before their …
The booth of the ICRC is set up by colleagues who arrive on the spot early in the morning. CC BY-NC-ND / ICRC The ICRC’s booth packed with enthusiastic visitors not long after the sale started. CC …
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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.
