Table of contents Editorial Rembering the Indian Ocean tsunami Colombo hosts first regional legislative drafting workshop on international humanitarian law Health care in detention: An interview with …
22-02-2015 This weekend, the ICRC delivered food, medical supplies and other essential items to the roughly 5,000 people trapped in the town of Debaltseve by heavy fighting over the past week. The …
23-02-2015 Expanding conflict Baghdad / Geneva (ICRC) – As a result of the recent widening of the conflict in Iraq, many more people – numbering in the hundreds of thousands – have been affected. The …
24-02-2015 The new Head of the ICRC delegation to the African Union, Felipe Donoso, presented his letter of credence to the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, on …
The first expert panel of ICRC's Research and Debate Cycle on Principles Guiding Humanitarian Action tackled the topic of the application of the humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, …
The first expert panel of ICRC's Research and Debate Cycle on Principles Guiding Humanitarian Action tackled the topic of the application of the humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, …
Portraits from Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen. Tripoli, Lebanon's second largest city, has long been plagued by cycles of violence and hardship. To help the most vulnerable members of the …
25-02-2015 Niamey (ICRC) – The conflict which broke out several months ago in north-eastern Nigeria has spilled over the border into neighbouring Niger. Since 6 February several areas in the Diffa …
Owais Ighbari is a brave little boy. The three-year-old has had a rough life. Born with spina bifida, he suffers from weakness in his lower limbs. Desperately seeking help, his family consulted many …
26-02-2015 Manila (ICRC) – Around 4,000 families displaced by the recent fighting between armed groups in central Mindanao are being assisted by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) …
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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.
