Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children have been displaced or have fled into neighbouring countries following the crisis that erupted in South Sudan in December 2013. Staying in contact …
Speech Delivered at the 9th ICRC Moot Court Competition, Xiamen, Fujian, 6 December 2015 Sten Idris Verhoeven Dear organisers, Dear coaches and students, It is a pleasure to address you at the end of …
In a ward in Zamboanga City Medical Center with her 2-month-old baby, Luisa* was still in a daze as she tried to narrate her ordeal. For 2 years, she and her family were able to blend in with the …
Sexual violence has been, and to a large extent continues to be, shrouded in silence. However, its prevalence and horrific toll on individuals and societies, as well as the dynamics behind it, have …
16-12-2015 Damascus – Geneva: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) have started to deliver food and other aid to thousands of people in the …
16-12-2015 Beirut – Particularly vulnerable Palestine refugees from Syria in Lebanon will receive assistance to cope with the coming winter through a programme launched by the International Committee …
Displaced Syrians in camps with tattered tents or living in run-down homes fear the ongoing winter, which is going to get harsher in coming weeks. It will be extremely difficult for children to …
Building on the previous panel discussion " Responding to sexual violence in conflict: can we do better ?", the ICRC and the Geneva Centre for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action (CERAH) …
What factors condition behaviour in armed conflict? What is the distance between knowing IHL and respecting it? What leads a combatant to comply with the law or not? Ten years after the publication …
In November 2015, the ICRC and Deakin University gathered representatives from humanitarian organizations for a closed roundtable in Melbourne on the costs and challenges of adhering to 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.
