These guidelines have been produced to help the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement better manage the risks associated with weapon contamination resulting from conventional weapons …
Debates about the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) have raised a number of questions with regard to the interpretation of some of its provisions. The ICRC is pleased to make …
States and the international community should empower women living through armed conflict to enable them to deal with the realities of the conflict. This call was made by panelists and participants …
Colombo (ICRC) – The latest edition of the International Review of the Red Cross , titled The Missing , was launched during an event organized by the Colombo delegation of the ICRC on 29 March. In …
ICRC multimedia exhibition featuring at international photographic festival in Australia shares stories of resilience amid warfare in the remote peaks and valleys of Papua New Guinea's highlands. …
ICRC President Peter Maurer address, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC, 10 May 2019. As delivered. We all see the enormous violations of international humanitarian law in …
In Yemen, the fighting, which enters its fifth year, has not only led to death, destruction and disease, it has disrupted every aspect of the daily lives of the struggling peoples. Desperation …
Armed conflicts, violence, disasters and migration all result in people going missing An international workshop titled Clarifying the Fate and Whereabouts of Missing Migrants: Exchanging Information …
Several years ago, young children were mesmerized by the appearance of a four-wheel drive vehicle that sped into their community with a group of armed men. The truck crisscrossed the main …
A new exhibition on Yemen has opened in Manchester showcasing objects and items from the war-torn country. Yemen: Inside a crisis seeks to explore how conflict has impacted the lives of Yemenis …
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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.
