Almost four years have gone by since armed conflict broke out in Syria. It’s estimated that more than six million Syrians are now living in besieged areas or are internally displaced. That’s almost a …
Children and their amazing resilience At 1:00 a.m. on 10 June, in Mosul, exactly a month before this picture was taken, family members shook these two boys awake. As one of the boys explains: "We …
11-02-2015 The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is deeply concerned about continued violence perpetrated against its volunteers in Guinea. Due to the fear and mistrust surrounding …
Schastye. The name of this small town in Ukraine's Lugansk region means "happiness," in both Russian and Ukrainian. But Schastye lies on the front line, and has suffered extensive damage. This video, …
Tripoli, Lebanon's second largest city, has been the scene of recurrent outbursts of armed violence between the marginalized communities of the Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen neighbourhoods. Since …
11-02-2015 Geneva / Bogotá (ICRC) – A Dutch citizen who was captured last month by the National Liberation Army (ELN) was today handed over to a team made up of delegates from the International …
Donetsk, Ukraine, January 2015. A girl cowers in fear as shelling hits Hospital No. 3, which specializes in older people and children. Donetsk lies in opposition-controlled territory. It has been the …
Members of the Chadian armed forces in the south-west of the country have been given training by the ICRC on international humanitarian law (IHL). It is vital that these soldiers, who are setting off …
09-02-2015 Bamako / Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply concerned about the situation in northern Mali. The ICRC medical team at Gao regional hospital has …
The law provides an essential framework to ensure that the rights of victims of sexual violence are upheld as well as preventing its occurrence in the first place. This was the conclusion of a panel …
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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.
