Over two decades have passed since the Bougainville Conflict broke out and an unknown number of the estimated 20,000 victims of the violence remain missing and unaccounted for. This brief glimpse …
Promoting the right to know Since the end of the civil war in 1990, the ICRC has been encouraging the Lebanese authorities at all levels to take concrete measures to clarify the fate of people …
During the 1975–1990 conflict, thousands of people went missing across Lebanon. The majority of them were young males in their twenties of various nationalities (Lebanese, Syrian, Palestinian and …
The ICRC regularly participates in military training exercises. But it's not every day that they involve over 30,000 troops, 21 ships, three submarines and more than 200 aircraft. These were the …
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. …
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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.
