Health Care in Danger, an ambitious project of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, was on the agenda of the 2013 Council of Delegates that took place in Sydney, Australia. During a dedicated …
A summary of the ICRC's activities in Eritrea between January and December 2013. FACTS & FIGURES ERITREA January - December 2013 In 1998, the ICRC opened its office in Eritrea and worked throughout …
Afghanistan’s wheelchair basketball team have only been playing together for four years and became a national team just a year ago. Despite this fact, there seem to be no limits to the players’ …
The ICRC sometimes teams up with National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in the field. The cooperation delegate is there to make sure that, in difficult situations, the ICRC, Federation and …
As part of the Research and debate cycle on new technologies and the modern battlespace , the ICRC Australia Mission hosted a panel discussion on "New technologies and the future battlefield", …
Since the establishment of ad hoc international criminal tribunals and the adoption of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, European – in particular South Eastern European (SEE) – …
Cyber warfare figures prominently on the agenda of policymakers and military leaders around the world. New units to ensure cyber security are created at various levels of government, including in the …
21-05-2014 The ICRC, working in cooperation with Haiti's prison administration, has just completed a new custody area in the civilian prison in the southern city of Les Cayes, one of the most …
Mudiya, Abyan, southern Yemen. ICRC teams and Yemen Red Crescent volunteers offload a truck of aid for internally displaced families. CC BY-NC-ND / ICRC / B. Lamon ICRC teams and Yemen Red Crescent …
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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.
