08-06-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – More than 280 children and 70 caretakers from a Khartoum orphanage affected by heavy combat have been evacuated to a safer location outside the capital. A team from the …
25-05-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – Vital surgical supplies donated by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) are now being distributed to seven hospitals in Khartoum. The medical supplies …
25-05-2023 Juba (ICRC) – The ICRC welcomes the ratification of the Convention on Cluster Munitions by the Revitalized Transitional National Legislative Assembly in May. The institution also stands …
18-05-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – Climate action in the Near and Middle East remains extremely weak in areas affected by armed conflict, and the most fragile and unstable places are almost entirely excluded …
17-05-2023 Joint statement from the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric, and the President of the Japanese Red Cross Society, Atsushi Seike, ahead of the G7 …
16-05-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – Artur was driving through the sunflower fields of northern Ukraine when the heavy wheels of his tractor triggered devastation. “We were driving to the field and hit a mine. …
12-05-2023 Juba, South Sudan (ICRC) - For the first time, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) introduced two new cassava varieties to South Sudan. In an event on Friday, the Ministry …
11-05-2023 Brasilia (ICRC) – During a visit to Brasilia this week, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mirjana Spoljaric, raised the importance of upholding …
08-05-2023 Ouagadougou – On World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Burkinabe Red Cross Society express their deepest concern about the spiralling …
08-05-2023 Juba, South Sudan (ICRC) - today, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has inaugurated a new Operating Theatre (OT) in Juba Military Hospital (JMH). The OT will provide …
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Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.
