On 17-18 February 2016 the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), the International Law and Policy Institute (ILPI) and the ICRC co-hosted a regional roundtable on the prohibition and elimination of …
Landmines, trip wires, unexploded shells – the people of eastern Ukraine are confronted with these on a daily basis. Fighting continues in some areas, while in others it has stopped, but explosive …
This course, originally developed by the ICRC for its own delegates, provides users with a basic understanding of what happens when people are deprived of their liberty. It covers the various forms …
Imagine a humanitarian convoy made up of hundreds of tonnes of rice travelling from one country to another- 2500 miles apart-for the benefit of people in need. That was the case recently when the …
Internationally, the number of people being injured by landmines is falling. But in some countries, new mines are being laid. Those countries include Iraq. The thousands of men, women and children …
By Helen Durham, director of International Law and Policy, ICRC Nearly 20 years have passed since the Ottawa Treaty came into being, banning anti-personnel landmines. This important piece of …
03-04-2016 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is concerned about the humanitarian impact of fighting along the line of contact in Nagorno-Karabakh, which seriously deteriorated on 2 …
01-04-2016 Port-au-Prince (ICRC) - In cooperation with the national prison service, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has recently finished building a wing for juvenile detainees at …
From air dropping food in remote areas to reuniting families separated by conflict, see how we help people in South Sudan. See also: South Sudan: Displaced by conflict, struggling with hunger - …
I'm eight years old. Ten months ago, my parents disappeared. Now my brothers and I are going back to our home town, Lubumbashi, to live with our uncle, our dad's big brother. Due to the conflict in …
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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.
