09-03-2017 Bogotá (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) observed a clear reduction in the impact of the internal armed conflict on the civilian population in Colombia in 2016. …
09-03-2017 Yangon / Kyaing Tong (ICRC) – The first physical rehabilitation centre in Shan State has officially opened its doors in Kyaing Tong. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) …
Each year, the ICRC organises an International Humanitarian Law (IHL) role play competition, designed to encourage competing students to negotiate, persuade, argue and demonstrate their knowledge of …
An exhibition of powerful photographs and films by award-winning photographer and filmmaker Nick Danziger tells the stories of eleven women living in conflict zones during the first decade of the …
In the week marking International Women's Day , ICRC director of law and policy, Dr Helen Durham was invited by UK law firm Doughty Street Chambers to participate in a one-day event examining the …
As a woman in Somalia, Halima Abdulle is well aware that leadership roles in her country have traditionally been reserved for men. But this reality didn't stop her from rising to the top of her …
*Samuel, 36, spent most of his time working in the rice field or the vegetable farm as a farmer. During months when he has to wait for rice to harvest, he would work as a construction worker or a …
Since October 2016, some 70,000 Muslim people fleeing insecurity in Myanmar have arrived in Bangladesh. Local people, like Cox's Bazar resident Shahina Begum, defy their own challenges to assist the …
08-03-2017 Beijing (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Regional Delegation for East Asia and the Chengdu Second People's Hospital in Sichuan Province entered into a …
We have long been working to prevent and end sexual violence in armed conflicts and to ensure that the countless victims – men, women, boys and girls – receive the help they need. In this document, …
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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.
