27-05-2021 Geneva/Addis-Ababa/Khartoum (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is asking donors for an additional 28 million Swiss francs ($31.3 million) for its operations in …
HL Side Event on Protection of Health Care: Speech given by Mr Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Colleagues, Today we are here to reflect on and improve our …
Families of missing persons are still yearning for their loved ones, four years after the Marawi conflict. Nanay Rosa’s regular day starts grinding as early as 3 am. From her house in an Iligan City …
Statement to the Group of Governmental Experts on Advancing responsible State behavior in cyberspace in the context of international security, Informal consultative meeting. Excellencies, ladies and …
PILLAGE IS PROHIBITED. ATTACKING, LOOTING AND PILLAGING OF PROPERTY WAS A VIOLATION OF DIGNITY. -- The Tallensi considered attacking, looting and pillaging of civilian property a violation of their …
Equitable vaccine distribution is a humanitarian imperative. There is a choice. The world of the next ten years can be one of greater justice, abundance and dignity. Or it can be one of conflict, …
Although the idea dates back to the aftermath of the First World War, it was only in 1945 that the first successful international organs of criminal justice – the Nuremberg and Tokyo International …
International humanitarian law (IHL) – also called the “law of war” or the “law of armed conflict” – sets out detailed rules that seek for humanitarian reasons to limit the effects of armed conflict. …
The Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects applies two general …
The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction belongs to the category of instruments of international law that …
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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.
