During the first six months of 2023, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) conducted 102 awareness sessions in Rakhine State, reaching out to 3,000 people and providing them with …
Neil Davison, Senior Scientific and Policy Adviser, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Geneva. This years' Beijing Xiangshan Forum comes at an important time for regional and …
More than 80 senior military officers from more than 62 countries have convened in Nairobi at a high-level workshop on the laws of war and their application in military operations. The Senior …
The Florence Nightingale Medal is awarded to nurses who display exceptional courage and devotion to victims of armed conflict or natural disaster or to those who display exemplary service in the …
The risks and opportunities presented by artificial intelligence (AI) in conflict settings were laid bare at an event at Chatham House on Monday night. In the week when the UK is hosting an AI Safety …
A chance to take international humanitarian law out of the classroom and into the real world. During the week of 16–20 October 2023, the seventeenth edition of the "Yachay" regional human rights …
According to international humanitarian law (IHL), health establishments and units, including hospitals, should not be attacked. This protection extends to the wounded and sick as well as to medical …
A speech given by Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, at the international humanitarian conference for the people of Gaza held in Paris. The suffering we …
The restorative project supporting families mourning loved ones who disappeared during the violence period (1980-2000) in Peru. When a person goes missing, their loved ones often carry a photograph …
Speech of Balthasar Staehelin, the personal envoy of the ICRC president to China and head of the Regional Delegation for East Asia, for the Forum on Digital Poverty Reduction and Charity, World …
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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.
