Large segments of the population of the Gaza Strip are still deprived of safe drinking water. Repairs to sewage systems and the restoration of basic electricity services remain urgent. Water and …
ICRC President Maurer’s speech at La Maison de la Paix launched the ICRC’S Second Research and Debate Cycle on Principles Guiding Humanitarian Action. “The principles of humanity, impartiality, …
12-10-2014 Geneva/Tehran/Baghdad (ICRC) – At a high-level meeting that took place in Geneva from 8 to 10 October under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), …
Statement Speech by Robert Mardini, ICRC head of operations for the Near and Middle East. Cairo, 12 October 2014. Honourable representatives of the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Kingdom of Norway, …
How can the international community better protect health care providers and patients in the midst of war and emergencies? This was the topic discussed at a special event, Health Care in Danger: the …
10-10-2014 A regional seminar on international humanitarian law – the law applicable in armed conflict – will start today in Manila. The six-day event, jointly organized by the University of the …
In this interview, ICRC’s Australia Mission meets Australian Red Cross’ new Director of International Humanitarian Law and Movement Relations, Dr Phoebe Wynn-Pope. As the well-known national red …
The fate of tens of thousands of people who disappeared in connection with the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War has still not been determined, preventing their families from closing a painful chapter in their …
During the recent conflict in Gaza more than 2,200 people were killed and some 11,500 wounded in 51 days of hostilities and as many as 400,000 people were displaced within the densely populated …
10-10-2014 Geneva / Baku / Erevan (ICRC) – The body of an Armenian citizen who died in custody in Azerbaijan in August 2014 was repatriated today and handed over to representatives of the Armenian …
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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.
