The violence shows no sign of abating. Libya remains a patchwork of conflict, fuelled by a plethora of armed groups with varying allegiances and diverse agendas. Thousands have been killed; hundreds …
Statement Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), Meeting of Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS), 13 - 17 April 2015, Geneva. Statement of the ICRC Thank you Mr Chairman. …
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A second ICRC plane was able to land in Sana'a this morning. Its cargo included 32 tonnes of urgently-needed medical supplies. A first batch of medical aid has already been sent to Aden; other …
The ICRC first established a presence in Thailand in 1975 to support its operations in the country as well as in Cambodia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic and Viet Nam. Today, the ICRC seeks to …
The Empress Shôken Fund, which was created to promote relief work in times of peace, received 34 applications this year from National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies around the world. It is …
Sana'a / Geneva (ICRC) – Urgently needed medical supplies were brought into Yemen by plane today by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). They will be distributed to hospitals …
An overview of the ICRC's detention work in Somalia. Check-out the ICRC website in Somali: http://www.icrc.org/eng/home/languages/somali/index.jsp Every detained person needs water in sufficient …
As Liberia looks forward to an Ebola-free future, one of the serious challenges that remain is how to dispose of Ebola waste safely. In this video we see how the ICRC is helping to ensure liquid …
10-04-2015 Geneva/Мoscow, 10 April 2015 – The second phase of humanitarian assistance to displaced civilians from eastern Ukraine has started in the Rostov Region. The International Committee of 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.
