REGULATIONS AND PROTECTIONS INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS (ICRC) IN ARMED CONFLICT BY INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW

Abstract

Armed conflict or war stipulated in International Humanitarian Law is the way that is used in
conflict resolution. As a result of the armed conflict or war is material losses, damage to a
regional area include damage to the environment, buildings, and even mengakibat human victims
as perpetrators of war and civilians were injured, slightly injured, seriously injured, dying or
critical even result in death. Of armed conflict that is there the International Committee of the
Red Cross. International Committee of the Red Cross is a subject of international law which is an
organization that is impartial, neutral and independent, whose mission is purely humanitarian,
namely to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict or war and other violent
situations, and give them the help . With normative juridical research methods, data collection,
interviews, and document study qualitatively. The results of the study International Committee of
the Red Cross and protections governed by the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional
Protocols of 1977. The causes of the violation of the protection of the International Committee of
the Red Cross is due to the war criminals do cunning, ignorance of the parties, and Humanitarian
Law is not always respected and violations of humanitarian law is not always followed. The role
of the International Committee of the Red Cross as a neutral party that is carrying out its
mandate under international humanitarian law. War is not a game, but the war has rules that
governed the Humanitarian Law.
Keywords: Armed Conflict, The ICRC Protection, Violation, Humanitarian Law.