Commentary on the First Geneva Convention (flyer)
This flyer promotes the updated Commentary on the First Geneva Convention – the first in a series of updated Commentaries to be published by the ICRC. The flyer can be used as a promotional tool …
This flyer promotes the updated Commentary on the First Geneva Convention – the first in a series of updated Commentaries to be published by the ICRC. The flyer can be used as a promotional tool …
Speech given by Peter Maurer, president of the ICRC, 14 November 2015, Algiers, Algeria I would like to warmly welcome you to the Ninth Senior Workshop on International Rules Governing Military …
Originally from Gaza, Neamah, a 65-year-old Palestinian woman, moved to Hebron in the West Bank when she married, and has settled and lived there happily with her husband and children ever since. But …
Eighty senior officers from some 70 countries will be in Algers from 14 to 19 November for a workshop on the international rules governing military operations. This workshop, developed by the ICRC, …
13-11-2015 ICRC staff take part in the evacuation of bodies from Donetsk airport. ICRC / O. Davydova. Kiev (ICRC) – More than 40 experts from Ukraine and other countries have participated in the …
Geneva (ICRC) - As major powers gather in Vienna for fresh talks to try to end the conflict in Syria , the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has called on states to intensify efforts 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) …
Statement of the International Committee of the Red Cross to the 2015 Meeting of High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons The International Committee of the Red …
The intensifying violence in Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic , and elsewhere in the country is cause for grave concern. The ICRC's head of delegation in Bangui describes in words and …
In June 2012, the first ICRC-sponsored women's wheelchair basketball team was established in Battambang, in northwest Cambodia. Since then, this initiative has had a life-changing impact on the lives …
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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.