Quiquil, Guatemala The vehicles that transported the remains arrived in a caravan during the night and were received by people who lighted the way with candles. There is no electricity in Quiquil . …
Overview The Advanced IHL Learning Series are a resource for lecturers and trainers who wish to keep abreast of the latest developments in international humanitarian law (IHL) and other related …
In recent months, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) together with the London-based Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) organized a series of …
Based on How does law protect in war? and the International Review of the Red Cross , this ready-to-use workshop combines fictitious case studies, presentations, group work and discussion allowing …
Four-year-old Osman came to the Kismayo Stabilization Centre earlier this year. Suffering from Kwashiorkor, a nutritional disorder caused by lack of protein, he developed a flaky rash all over his …
Thousands of people who have fled the conflict now face a severe shortage in safe drinking water. Water is a scarce resource for the thousands of displaced people and refugees who have fled the …
An open letter to all United Nations Member States: We continue to sound the alarm. Scores of health-care workers are being killed or injured while caring for sick and wounded men, women and children …
Speech given by Mr Peter Maurer, president of the ICRC, at the United Nations Security Council Briefing, 3 May 2016, New York, USA Even wars have limits, because wars without limits are wars without …
In many of the photographs taken by Victor Lacken during the outbreak of Ebola virus disease in 2014 and 2015, the faces of his subjects are obscured by masks and goggles, their bodies covered …
External communication – the exchange of information and public messages with a variety of external audiences – is an integral part of the ICRC's operations and positioning work. It ensures that the …
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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.
