Considerable attention has focused recently on the destruction of historic monuments in many of the world's armed conflicts. What is however not so widely realized is that in the event of armed …
There is no longer any doubt about the importance of women's work for the ICRC, but it has not always been so. For decades women were either under-represented or relegated to particular tasks. An …
Bogotá (ICRC) – Although the fighting is abating between government forces and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People's Army (FARC-EP), the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) is …
During the 15-year-long Lebanese war that ended in 1990, thousands of people went missing throughout the country. Today their fate is still unknown. For more than 40 years, the families of these …
The ICRC has long worked to protect and assist internally displaced people (IDPs) around the world, as part of our mandate to help people affected by armed conflict and other situations of violence. …
In the marshlands of Barangay Butilen, Datu Salibo municipality, Maguindanao, in southern Philippines, about 2,000 people are taking refuge due to renewed fighting between government forces and the …
The ICRC has emphasised the need for compliance with international humanitarian law in evidence before the UK parliament's International Development Committee. ICRC senior policy advisor Markus …
I'm eight years old. Ten months ago, my parents disappeared. Now my brothers and I are going back to our home town, Lubumbashi, to live with our uncle, our dad's big brother. Due to the conflict in …
By Helen Durham, director of International Law and Policy, ICRC Nearly 20 years have passed since the Ottawa Treaty came into being, banning anti-personnel landmines. This important piece of …
On 17-18 February 2016 the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), the International Law and Policy Institute (ILPI) and the ICRC co-hosted a regional roundtable on the prohibition and elimination of …
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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.
