A month into the conflict in Sudan, Alfonso Verdú Pérez, ICRC’s head of delegation in Sudan, sheds light on the pressing humanitarian needs and some of the challenges the team has faced since the …
The 18th meeting of the Coordination Mechanism seeking to clarify the fate and whereabouts of people missing in relation to the armed conflicts of the 1990s and August 2008 and their aftermath was …
The ICRC’s report on ‘Childhood in Rubble: The Humanitarian Consequences of Urban Warfare for Children’. DOWNLOAD THE REPORT HERE Landmines, airstrikes, snipers – in cities across the world, …
(Cairo - ICRC) The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Al-Azhar University, one of the world’s oldest institutions of Islamic teaching, held a seminar on the “Principles of the …
Godiya lives at an internally displaced peoples camp in Adamawa state, northeast Nigeria since 2014 after her community in Madagali was affected by armed conflict. According to Godiya, "It has been …
Less than ten months has passed after the last significant escalation, and once again, affected families in Gaza must begin to rebuild their lives. These communities have now lived through three …
Even if the Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most ratified human rights convention in the world, ICRC's president Mirjana Spoljaric stresses that much more needs to be done to protect …
What do football grounds, teahouses and livestock markets have in common? In conflict-affected parts of Azerbaijan, these are some of the places where the International Committee of the Red Cross …
Hunger strikes are a type of protest. Historically and worldwide, detainees have turned to hunger strikes to protest their detention, their treatment in detention or their conditions of detention. …
Shanghai (ICRC) - The Regional Delegation for East Asia of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Tongji University Law School co-organized a seminar on the Contemporary Development …
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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.
