50 million people in urban areas face protracted and repeated armed violence. The direct impact of conflict is visible and well understood, but there is less research into the cumulative, long-term …
In recent years, a wide array of new technologies have entered the modern battlefield, giving rise to new means and methods of warfare, such as cyber attacks, armed drones and robots, including …
On 29 September the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Australia hosted a symposium in Canberra to explore the relevance of international humanitarian …
United Nations, General Assembly, 70th session, Sixth Committee, item 86 of the agenda, statement by the ICRC, New York, October 2015. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) welcomes the …
Jerusalem/Geneva (ICRC): The International Committee of the Red Cross urges the Israeli government to immediately halt plans for the punitive destruction of six private homes in the West Bank. The …
On 22 October, the ICRC and the Geneva Academy organized a conference to discuss the efforts made to prevent violations of the law in armed conflict. The event was part of the programme of the 2015 …
The Gulf of Aden has long been one of the world's deadliest places for migrants. Now the conflict in Yemen has reversed traditional migration patterns and created new humanitarian challenges. Amina …
Statement by Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of Red Cross Secretary General, Ladies and gentlemen, I came back just this morning from Mogadishu, Somalia. I could have come back …
32nd International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, Geneva, Switzerland, 8-10 December 2015. Document prepared by the International Committee of the Red Cross This is the fourth report …
How would you feel if your children had been missing for over a year? In this short video, a family is tearfully rejoined with their two young sons who disappeared in July 2014. After more than a …
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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.
