19-03-2024 The International Committee of the Red Cross and the government of Romania signed today a headquarters agreement in Bucharest. The ICRC has been present in Romania since the escalation of …
15-03-2024 Statement by Patrick Youssef, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Regional Director for Africa, following his visit to Burkina Faso Ouagadougou (ICRC) – During my visit to …
14-03-2024 ICRC Geneva - The 19th meeting of the Coordination Mechanism seeking to clarify the fate and whereabouts of people missing in relation to the armed conflicts of the 1990s and August 2008 …
12-03-2024 Maputo (ICRC) – Nearly 100,000 people, more than half of them children, have been displaced in one month due to an escalation of armed violence in Cabo Delgado province of Mozambique. The …
10-03-2024 Geneva (ICRC) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) visited Qatar on Sunday to discuss the desperate humanitarian situation in relation to the armed …
07-03-2024 Nairobi (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) launches food deliveries in Somali prisons for the month of Ramadan. Over the next four weeks, it plans to distribute …
23-02-2024 Maputo (ICRC) – The rehabilitation of Ibo health centre was completed this year and the facility started providing healthcare with surgical capabilities to 41,000 people on Ibo Islands and …
20-02-2024 Addis Ababa (ICRC) – Northern regions of Ethiopia struggle to recover from the devastating legacy of the two-year armed conflict that gripped the country between November 2020 and November …
19-02-2024 Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is seeking to clarify the fate of 23,000 persons whose families have no news of them, either because they have been …
14-02-2024 Geneva (ICRC) — The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) cautions the parties to the conflict, and the international community, about the dire impact of increased and sustained …
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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.
