05-11-2014 Brussels (ICRC) – Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), visited Brussels on 5 November to meet members of the new European Commission and …
More than two decades after the end of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War, tens of thousands of people are still listed as “missing” – no-one knows what happened to them. On 10 October 2014, the ICRC held …
Statement Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, questions relating to refugees, returnees and displaced persons and humanitarian questions. United Nations, General Assembly, …
An international conference on cyber security, the humanitarian consequences of cyber wars and the application of international humanitarian law took place in Moscow recently. The event was organized …
05-11-2014 Thousands of people displaced by conflict in north-eastern Nigeria have taken refuge in Maiduguri. On 3 November, the ICRC and the Nigerian Red Cross Society completed the distribution of …
IHL expert Marco Sassoli was in Yerevan to participate in a panel discussion on the challenges of humanitarian access and to help launch the publication by the International Committee of the Red …
Statement The world needs humanitarian workers in West Africa. Stigmatizing them or restricting their movement will hinder the global response. Statement by the International Red Cross and Red …
04-11-2014 Algiers (ICRC) – An important meeting of experts from Arab States on international humanitarian law is starting in Algiers today under the joint patronage of Algeria's justice minister and …
Floro used to go out fishing at night under the moon and sell his catch at market next day. A year ago, Typhoon Haiyan destroyed his boat. Suddenly, he was struggling to feed the family. So is the …
03-11-2014 The ICRC and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent continue to provide millions of Syrians in both government- and opposition-held areas with emergency relief and clean water. Last month, after …
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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.
