Is there still a place for impartial humanitarianism?
Speaker: Yves Daccord, Director-General, ICRC. Where: Chatham House, London When: 04.09.2014 Chair : Lord Mark Malloch-Brown Listen to an audio recording from this event on Chatham House's …
Speaker: Yves Daccord, Director-General, ICRC. Where: Chatham House, London When: 04.09.2014 Chair : Lord Mark Malloch-Brown Listen to an audio recording from this event on Chatham House's …
04-09-2014 Bangui (ICRC) – More than 14,000 people living in the Kaga Bandoro area, in the north-central part of the Central African Republic, have been given seed, farm tools, food and basic …
In the middle of July, a group of academics and government lawyers gathered for two days at Oxford University to discuss issues related to current challenges pertaining to armed conflict and the …
A summary of the ICRC's activities in Ethiopia between January and June 2014. Gezahegn Berhanu/ERCS More than 30, 800 detainees in 17 federal and regional prisons were visited. More than …
UN Committee on the Rights of the Child Children and armed conflict (United Nations) UNICEF – UN Children’s Fund Child rights information Network (CRIN) Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers …
ICRC delegates Marina Fakhouri and Bruno Pommier were in Lugansk from 21 to 26 August. They describe the precarious situation in the town as shelling continues to endanger civilian lives and damage …
A collection of FAQs on matters related to detainees, detention and the ICRC Hunger strikes in prisons: The ICRC's position Why does the ICRC visit prisoners? Which prisoners does it visit? Why does …
This report, which covers the year of 2013, provides an update on the implementation of the Framework for Sustainable Development at the ICRC. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AT THE ICRC ANNUAL REPORT 2013 …
The ICRC has pledged not to abandon the people of Libya despite the murder in Sirte on 4 June of Michael Greub, who headed our sub-delegation in Misrata. The ICRC's acting deputy director of …
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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.