24-08-2017 Tripoli (ICRC) – Hospitals in Libya are suffering from a shortage of medical supplies even as they see an increase in patients, leading the ICRC to donate a new round of needed medicines …
Kuala Lumpur (ICRC/NDUM) – The Malaysian deputy minister of defence launched the first-ever regional centre for Military and International Humanitarian Law. Hosted on the campus of the National …
The ICRC hosted a full-day workshop on humanitarian forensic work during the annual conference of the Asia-Pacific Medico Legal Agencies' Association (APMLA). The conference was hosted by the Central …
Women and children in Dhagahyale village, 54km from Guri Ceel town, wait their turn to see the Somali Red Crescent Society mobile health team. Every Tuesday, residents from the village and the …
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the adoption of the 1977 Additional Protocols to the 1949 Geneva Conventions. The two Additional Protocols, adopted at a Diplomatic Conference in 1977, are …
On World Humanitarian Day 2017, we were amazed to learn why our colleague, Ziad, was so ambitious about working in the humanitarian field. Ziad lost his father after having both legs amputated. He …
Kathmandu (ICRC) – The 7th South Asian Regional Conference on International Humanitarian Law, jointly organised by the government of Nepal and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), …
Speech given by Ms Christine Beerli, Vice-President of the ICRC at the World Humanitarian Day panel on "Violence against health care and its implications for affected populations, humanitarian …
What is it like to live with the disappearance of a loved one? How does one learn to cope with the pain and the misery? When does it become acceptable to let their memory fade away? The ICRC brings …
HONG KONG, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- There are "many opportunities" for China and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to cooperate on the Belt and Road Initiative, based on shared …
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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.
