08-08-2024 Port Sudan (ICRC) – Two out of three Sudanese civilians no longer have access to essential health services after most of the country's hospitals and health centers were forced to close …
09-08-2024 The ICRC's touring exhibition Weaving Memory: The Legacy of Those Who Never Stopped Searching highlights the urgent need to continue searching for missing people until what happened to …
12-08-2024 ICRC President issues a call to make the Geneva Conventions a political priority Geneva (ICRC) – On the 75 th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, the president of the …
12-08-2024 In a speech at a media briefing on the 75th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric calls for the world to recommit to the framework for armed conflict that …
19-08-2024 Today marks World Humanitarian Day. Last year was the deadliest on record for humanitarian workers globally, and 2024 is set to be worse. The following quote is attributed to ICRC …
19-08-2024 ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric addresses the Tenth Conference of State Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty on World Humanitarian Day Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I …
22-08-2024 Port Sudan (ICRC) – Thousands of civilians remain trapped by heavy fighting in Al Fasher, Sudan, where Al Saudi, the only remaining hospital, has suffered repeated attacks, and the …
29-08-2024 Many statistics understate the actual number of cases due to persistent underreporting. Some countries still lack an appropriate legal framework explicitly recognizing the rights of …
29-08-2024 Geneva (ICRC) – At its meeting of 29 August 2024, the Assembly of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) elected Ms Annelis Lüscher Hämmerli as its newest member. She will …
29-08-2024 Geneva/Amman (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) commemorated the International Day of the Disappeared, held each year on August 30th, by organizing a public event …
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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.
