26-02-2016 Beirut (ICRC) – Repairs and upgrades to the infrastructure at Halba prison, in northern Lebanon, have just been completed thanks to the joint efforts of the International Committee of the …
In 2015, more than 1.3 million people received food and emergency aid in Iraq. This 30 second time lapse video shows an aid distribution to displaced people in the Salahuddin province. …
Losing a leg to a landmine need not mean the end of a young person's footballing ambitions. Juventus and France midfielder Paul Pogba spent time recently chatting to a group of disabled footballers …
The Far North Region of Cameroon continues to be the scene of clashes and violence, leaving many people dead or wounded and prompting hundreds of thousands to flee their homes. Many of the displaced …
People with disabilities often experience limited opportunities in society such as difficulties in access to health care, education, employment and even obstructions in living a normal family life. …
25-02-2016 Tehran (ICRC) –The Iranian Red Crescent and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) hosted a conference on helping migrants maintain ties with family members. This was the …
The UN General Assembly unanimously adopted a revised text of the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (SMR) on 17 December 2015. The revised text reflects many of the major …
Dropping food to hungry people in remote areas of South Sudan. Treating the injured in Mali. Supporting hospitals in Libya. All over Africa, the ICRC is helping people affected by war and other …
In late February 2016, our president Peter Maurer was in Syria. Each day he reflected on what he saw on the ground. Monday: "I arrived in Damascus today" It's my fourth visit since the beginning of …
23-02-2016 Update: 23 February 2016 - Paul Pogba donated €100,000 to the ICRC on behalf of UEFA, prior to the UEFA Champions League match between Juventus and FC Bayern Muenchen. UEFA.com users' Team …
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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.
