Join us for a special event in Canberra to mark the centenary of the International Tracing Agency for Prisoners-of-War and 100 years of ICRC's humanitarian action in detention. Featuring …
12-12-2014 As winter deepens, the ICRC is stepping up its activities in Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine to help people affected by the conflict. The organization had previously had to scale …
12-12-2014 In the days after Typhoon Hagupit (Ruby) hit central Philippines, the ICRC sent several teams into the area to assess the damage. They found some infrastructure and livelihoods damaged …
12-12-2014 Thirty-three surgeons from different parts of Libya have just concluded a two-day training course supported by the ICRC in surgery on weapon-wounded patients. A further 15 surgeons have …
14-12-2014 Juba / Geneva (ICRC/IFRC/SSRC) – It has been one year since the world's newest nation plunged into crisis. Millions of people have been affected and remain in serious need of basic help …
One of the ICRC's main objectives is to have an operational dialogue with militaries around the world, including in Australia, to ensure that the armed forces know and apply International …
It's 40 degrees Celsius inside the small room and in the middle of it: a dying patient. Around him: surgeon Nikolai Dmitriev, an anaesthetist and two nurses. Their mission: bringing the patient back …
15-12-2014 Antananarivo (ICRC) – As it does every year just before the festive season, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is giving the inmates at Tsiafahy maximum security prison an …
Dhaka University, Bangladesh. Bangladeshi and Nepali players compete in a friendly wheelchair basketball match held on the occasion of the International Day for Persons with Disabilities on 3 …
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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.
