01-09-2015 Manila (ICRC) – Over 60 years after ratifying the Geneva Conventions , the Philippines has achieved much progress in implementing international humanitarian law (IHL). The country is …
31-08-2015 Bogotá / Geneva (ICRC) – The ICRC's Colombia delegation has launched a campaign entitled "Human beings, inside and outside," promoting decent conditions in the country's prisons. The ICRC …
31-08-2015 International Committee of the Red Cross / International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies joint statement The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement has today …
13 Southeast and Northeast Asian countries gathered in Seoul, Republic of Korea, for the 'Tenth Southeast and Northeast Asia Session on International Humanitarian Law (IHL)', an intensive training …
The conflict in Syria has severely affected the health-care system. When you are sick, how do you take care of yourself when it is difficult just to find a single tablet of aspirin? Every day, nine …
30-08-2015 Beirut (ICRC) – Today the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) held events across Lebanon to mark the International Day of the Disappeared. In Tripoli, Baalbek and Tyre, …
For Nanagiz, the pain of her husband's disappearance has been hard to bear. She has gone through many dark periods. But gradually, through meeting up with other people in the same position, she has …
Mariam Poghosyan's son disappeared in December 1993. She was never to see him again and in her grief she refused even to leave the house. But gradually, through contact with others who are going …
Alla Hovhannisyan's father went missing when she was a young girl. Alla, now 31, is an opthamologist who participates in a support programme for relatives of missing people. She was inspired to …
Alyesha Baghryan was 33 when his wife Stella went missing in August 1993 together with a group of five other people from their village in Nagorny Karabakh. Alyesha and Stella had three children who …
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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.
