Tabasco, Tenosique, Mexico, 9 February 2012. Migrants from Central America wait for a train to leave. Hundreds of thousands of migrants from Central America risk their lives every year in search of a …
17-12-2014 Around the world, thousands of migrants are behind bars. Having already suffered many hardships on perilous journeys, migrants should not be subjected to administrative detention except as …
Every day, hundreds of people travel thousands of kilometres across land or sea in search of a brighter future. 18 December is International Migrants Day. Pierre Gentile, head of the ICRC's …
Winter is setting in and the days are getting colder in Krasnyi Lyman, eastern Ukraine. This small town is hosting thousands of people who have fled the fighting. Since 27 November, the ICRC and the …
Muhammad Al Humsi is one of the 100,000 Syrian refugees in Zaatari camp in Jordan. He and his family were forced to flee from their home nearly two years ago. Since then, he has been trying to get on …
Private military and security companies: Montreux Document participants establish the Montreux Document Forum to continue working on implementation The Montreux Document reaffirms the existing …
One of the ICRC's main objectives is to have an operational dialogue with militaries around the world, including in Australia, to ensure that the armed forces know and apply International …
It's 40 degrees Celsius inside the small room and in the middle of it: a dying patient. Around him: surgeon Nikolai Dmitriev, an anaesthetist and two nurses. Their mission: bringing the patient back …
15-12-2014 Antananarivo (ICRC) – As it does every year just before the festive season, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is giving the inmates at Tsiafahy maximum security prison an …
Dhaka University, Bangladesh. Bangladeshi and Nepali players compete in a friendly wheelchair basketball match held on the occasion of the International Day for Persons with Disabilities on 3 …
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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.
