Vulnerability and protection of migrants
A Conference co-organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) took place on 22 September 2016 at Solvay Library in Brussels. …
A Conference co-organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) took place on 22 September 2016 at Solvay Library in Brussels. …
Ethiopia is one of the most landmine contaminated countries in the world, with 314 areas suspected to be mined. In April 2016, the ICRC delegation in Ethiopia facilitated a manual demining training …
13-09-2016 Quito (ICRC) – Senior law enforcement officials from 13 Latin American countries are meeting today in Ecuador to address the challenges that arise in enforcing the law while upholding …
Somalia The ICRC’s Younees Rahoui visits one of the prisons in Somalia. Since 2012, the ICRC has been conducting regular visits to places of detention in Somalia. CC BY-NC-ND / ICRC / Pedram Yazdi …
A law student from Dilla University in Ethiopia won the 2016 International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Essay Competition. Henok Ashagre's essay was voted the best out of 58 submissions from five east …
13-09-2016 Kabul / ICRC - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) condemns the violent incident that took place at the Mirwais regional hospital in Kandahar yesterday in which two people …
"I looked around the International Red Cross exhibition room, and suddenly felt weak at the knees. I had originally been honoured when I received an invitation to a digital strategies roundtable in …
Liberia In a country ravaged by 14 years of civil war, football among amputees is a matter of national pride - a landmark of recovery and revival. Christopher Morris / ICRC Senegal Senegal. …
The ICRC's 20th course in International Humanitarian Law (IHL) for humanitarian professionals and policy makers is designed to acquaint participants with the international rules, principles and …
The ICRC has partnered with the Lebanese University (LU) for a second year to offer a university diploma in the clinical management of weapon wounded patients. This course, which will run from 31 …
Try one of the following resources:
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.