The war in Colombia isn’t over, it’s simply changed: armed conflicts now dominate life here in the remotest regions of the country. Time and time again we see with our own eyes violations of …
Geneva (ICRC) – Mirjana Spoljaric, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, will meet again with families of hostages today at the ICRC’s headquarters in Geneva. President …
In situations of armed conflict and other violence, disasters, and migration, people go missing. Families are separated, and dead bodies may never be identified and returned home. The effects of this …
Geneva (ICRC) – Teams from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Friday began carrying out a multi-day operation to facilitate the release and transfer of hostages held in Gaza and …
Civilian populations are often deprived of basic necessities in war. In order to carry out their tasks, humanitarian organizations must be granted rapid and unimpeded access to the people affected. …
Nineteen newly recruited officers of the Judge Advocate General Service (JAGS), the legal counsels of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), underwent a three-week training on international …
In situations of armed conflict, other situations of violence, disasters and in the context of migration, countless families become separated, many people go missing and bodies of the deceased remain …
For 30 years, Iakob Buadze’s life revolved around one goal – to find his brother, Merab, who had disappeared after joining the armed conflict in Abkhazia in the spring of 1993. A resident of …
Speech given by Mirjana Spoljaric, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, in Amman. Call for action: urgent humanitarian response in Gaza Excellencies, ministers, colleagues I …
With the escalation of violence in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, there has been a proliferation of dehumanizing language and of false and misleading information about the ICRC and our work in the …
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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.
