At a time when humanitarian action is facing mounting challenges across the Middle East, international humanitarian law urgently needs to be better known, understood and respected. Engaging with …
For over 30 years, the people of Afghanistan have lived in a state of near-constant violence. With almost one million displaced within their own country and countless others on the move, no segment …
18-03-2016 Kabul / Geneva - The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer, has said he is increasingly concerned about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in …
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During the 15-year-long Lebanese war that ended in 1990, thousands of people went missing throughout the country. Today their fate is still unknown. For more than 40 years, the families of these …
Tegucigalpa (ICRC) – Honduras's National Penitentiary Institute (INP) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today inaugurated a medical clinic in Gracias prison in the region of …
In contexts as diverse as Afghanistan and Papua New Guinea, the International Committee of the Red Cross undertakes a variety of work to provide assistance and protection to those affected by armed …
The ICRC's head of delegation in Syria, Marianne Gasser, who has witnessed the conflict from the start, argues that only a political solution can stop the …
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Five years of fighting. Hundreds of thousands have been killed. Millions have been displaced. Life has become almost impossible for so many. Syria, there are no words. …
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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.
