32nd International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, Geneva, Switzerland, 8-10 December 2015. Document prepared by the International Committee of the Red Cross This is the fourth report …
31-10-2015 Kiev/Severodonetsk (ICRC) – Huge blasts after an ammunition depot exploded in the town of Svatove, in the Lugansk region, have left at least eight people wounded and two dead. Many …
30-10-2015 Photo: UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré (Geneva, 31 October 2015) The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, and the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross …
Statement by Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of Red Cross Secretary General, Ladies and gentlemen, I came back just this morning from Mogadishu, Somalia. I could have come back …
Farmers Segondo Cañafuego and Cenona Estrada used to grind corn manually – a process that takes long hours with very little output. In March, we built a machine-operated corn mill in their community …
With winter looming people living close to the front line are even more vulnerable. Military actions in the Lugansk region of Ukraine have left many homeless, while the majority of those with homes …
29-10-2015 Kiev / Lugansk (ICRC) – Today, 20 detainees held in connection with the conflict in Ukraine were released with the participation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and …
In parts of Luzon and the Visayas, communities suffer from the effects of a protracted armed conflict between government security forces and the New People's Army. Often living in remote and …
The Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Christine Beerli, met with an official delegation from Palestine today led by President Mahmoud Abbas, to discuss the …
Group picture of the participants of the Advanced Seminar in front of the Carlton Participants of the Advanced Seminar at the Humanitarium Participants of the Advanced Seminar at the Humanitarium …
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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.
