Fewer than 5 kilometres of woodland and open countryside lie between Novotoshkivka and Donetskiy, two villages in Ukraine's Lugansk region. But Novotoshkivka is in government-controlled territory, …
14-04-2015 Geneva / Kiev / Moscow – The International Committee of the Red Cross is appealing for extra funds to tackle the severe humanitarian situation following a year of intense conflict in …
14-04-2015 Geneva/Washington D.C. (ICRC) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer, has just completed a two-day official visit to Washington. During his …
The ICRC is appealing for an additional CHF 26 million to help people whose lives have been destroyed by fighting in eastern Ukraine. This will bring our total budget for Ukraine to CHF 72 million. …
The ICRC has been present in Lebanon since 1967 providing assistance and protection to civilians affected by armed conflict, in close cooperation with the Lebanese Red Cross Society and the Palestine …
14-04-2015 With the completion of a new health facility, health care has become more accessible for displaced families – like the Paujani family – in Masepla transition site. CC BY-NC-ND / ICRC / R. …
15-04-2015 Geneva/Sanaa (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been denied access to the town of Maareb in central Yemen, where a large number of people are in urgent need …
16-04-2015 Beirut (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), together with the Lebanese Red Cross (LRC), is organizing a special photo exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of …
1976. Wounded civilians receive treatment in a field hospital. “One day we entered an area of a village that was caught in the middle of very heavy and continuous crossfire and we evacuated three …
"We don't have a lack of disasters in Africa." That was one observation made at the 4th Annual meeting of the Africa Society of Forensic Medicine, held in Nairobi, Kenya in March. That in part …
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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.
