This year is the 70th Anniversary of the adoption of the Geneva Conventions. The Conventions were agreed with the reality of World War 2 fresh in people's minds and in universal recognition of …
Sarajevo (ICRC) – A workshop titled Supporting and Strengthening Work with Relatives of Missing Persons will take place on 2 and 3 July 2019 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina . Organized by the …
Protection of civilians was at the core of the international conference on Preparing Modern Armed Forces for Peacekeeping Operations in the 21st Century co-organized by the International Committee …
Fifteen children from communities in Azerbaijan affected by armed conflict had the once in a lifetime opportunity to play a football match on a UEFA pitch and watch the final match of the UEFA Europa …
Over 60 special military officers and commanders attended a lecture on Global Humanitarian Activities of ICRC and International Humanitarian Law at Seoul on 10 April. The lecture was part of a series …
In February 2019, more than 100 families were forced to flee their homes because of armed clashes in Bukidnon province , northern Mindanao, Philippines . The displaced families , mostly members of …
In November 2018, the Lebanese Parliament passed Law 105, the Law on the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared, a step forward in providing answers to the families of the missing . Law 105 foresees the …
On 29 April 2019, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), along with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), organized the first Regional …
The ICRC supports a physical rehabilitation centre in Gaza where amputees receive physical rehabilitation, mobility devices and psychological support. Furthermore, the ICRC’s microeconomic grants …
This new ICRC flipbook contains over 50 one-page techniques that use art, music or theatre to engage with different audiences. Imagine that you're in front of a group of forty people . In the next …
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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.
