03-11-2022 Geneva (ICRC) – Cases of cholera and acute watery diarrhea gripping Syria and Lebanon add a layer to the suffering of the people in the two neighboring countries and are another reminder …
03-11-2022 Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is seeking the support of states around the world to create a ‘digital red cross/crescent emblem’ that could make it …
02-11-2022 The recurrent attacks against essential civilian infrastructure in the context of the Russia-Ukraine international armed conflict are disrupting access to key services, causing major …
27-10-2022 Bamako (ICRC) – The suffering of millions of people in Mali and the wider Sahel region is rooted in the deadly combination of conflict and the climate crisis. Caught between advancing …
25-10-2022 Addis Ababa (ICRC) – Many thousands of families are separated by conflict, violence, or natural disaster in Ethiopia. In nine months from January 2022, the International Committee of the …
22-10-2022 Bamako (ICRC) – The new president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, will be in Mali from 22 to 26 October in her first operational visit since …
19-10-2022 The Haitian National Red Cross society, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies reiterate the obligation to …
16-10-2022 Geneva (ICRC) - A team of 11 staff of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), including one doctor, is ready in Donetsk to visit any prisoners of war held in the area, …
14-10-2022 Geneva (ICRC)—We share the frustration regarding our lack of access to all prisoners of war (POWs) held in the international armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine. We have been working …
13-10-2022 Sana’a (ICRC) – After nearly eight years of armed conflict, Yemen is experiencing a crisis in education. Over two million children are out of school and countless others are growing up …
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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.
