Set up 25 years ago by the ICRC in collaboration with the Ministry of Social Affairs, MoSVY Orthopaedic Component Factory produces around 18,000 components and 10,000 crutches every year – benefiting …
Statement First Review Conference of the Convention on Cluster Munitions Dubrovnik, Croatia, 7-11 September 2015. Address by Christine Beerli, vice-president of the ICRC. We must urge the remaining …
One month after cyclone Komen and heavy seasonal rains caused floods and landslides in Myanmar, recovery work has started. The ICRC and Myanmar Red Cross Society (MRCS) are distributing food and …
Ilovaysk suffered heavy fighting in August and September 2014. Many people died, and civilians spent long periods cowering in bomb shelters and basements. The fighting may have stopped, but the …
How would you face an earthquake, a viral outbreak or a violent event? Voices to Action, a new initiative from the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, aims to bring attention to the …
A meeting on water and infrastructure issues in Cambodian prisons, jointly run by the ICRC and the General Department of Prisons, brought together representatives from the General Department of …
The ICRC is currently airdropping and distributing food rations in Toch, South Sudan, a remote area in Jonglei state – accessible only by boat or aircraft – where 1,500 of the 3,500 families …
Khartoum/Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has assisted in the transfer of 13 Sudanese Armed Forces personnel, three Policemen and two civilians released by the …
Kathmandu (ICRC/Nepal Red Cross Society) – Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have expressed serious concern over the growing incidents of …
03-09-2015 Kathmandu (ICRC/Nepal Red Cross Society) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Nepal Red Cross Society and National Network of Families of Disappeared and Missing Nepal …
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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.
