Speech by Balthasar Staehelin, the personal envoy of the ICRC president to China and head of the Regional Delegation for East Asia, at the event to mark the 75th Anniversary of the Geneva Conventions …
12-08-2024 In a speech at a media briefing on the 75th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric calls for the world to recommit to the framework for armed conflict that …
Speech given at media briefing on the 75th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions The Geneva Conventions are the foundational treaties of international humanitarian law and a remarkable success in …
On the 75th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, three African experts remind us of the ancestral traditions of humanity brought to bear during times of conflict. These traditions, which often …
12-08-2024 ICRC President issues a call to make the Geneva Conventions a political priority Geneva (ICRC) – On the 75 th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, the president of the …
In Ethiopia, pastoralism is widely practiced in the Somali and Afar Regional States, and to a lesser extent in Oromia and other regions of the country. Pastoral lowlands are characterized by …
By Balthasar Staehelin, the personal envoy of the ICRC president to China and head of the Regional Delegation for East Asia Today marks the 75th anniversary of the four Geneva Conventions adopted on …
09-08-2024 The ICRC's touring exhibition Weaving Memory: The Legacy of Those Who Never Stopped Searching highlights the urgent need to continue searching for missing people until what happened to …
Ten months since the onset of renewed hostilities between Israel and Hamas and other armed groups in Gaza, the violence – unprecedented in scale and nature – continues to exact an immense human toll …
08-08-2024 Port Sudan (ICRC) – Two out of three Sudanese civilians no longer have access to essential health services after most of the country's hospitals and health centers were forced to close …
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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.
