The people of eastern Ukraine are still suffering the effects of the recent fighting. In opposition-controlled Oleksandrivka and government-controlled Mariinka, the front line makes short journeys …
This video showcases the willpower of Bangladesh's Physically Challenged Cricket Team, and their brave and indomitable players. From 2 to 10 September, the team will take part in the 5-nation …
Forty years have passed, yet nothing has changed for the families of the missing in Lebanon. The families of the disappeared continue to wait for answers to ease their indescribable pain. They have …
Thirty years after Peru's bloody civil war, relatives of the dead and disappeared search for bodies and closure. Paralysed for more than a decade by a conflict between the Shining Path and the …
27-08-2015 Damascus (ICRC) – Health-care needs are growing in north-eastern Syria as a result of the fighting, including a bomb explosion in Qamishli on 19 August. Medical supplies have been …
Zahr-el-Ban last saw her husband three and a half years ago. She is a Syrian refugee who has found shelter in Lebanon, and since he disappeared, she has struggled to care for her two small children. …
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies across Europe are publishing photos of people looking for their missing relatives , online and in posters, in the hope of reconnecting families. This video …
My name is Amalya Yolchiyeva. My brother, Pashayev Pasha, went missing on 24 April 1994. I was only 12 at the time but I still remember vividly how my family started the long and painful search for …
27-08-2015 Port Moresby (ICRC) – Governments and civil societies around the world must do more to establish the fate and whereabouts of people who disappear in conflicts or other circumstances and …
27-08-2015 Geneva (ICRC) – Governments and civil society must do more to document the fate and whereabouts of people who disappear in conflicts or other circumstances and give stronger support 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.
