01-09-2022 This statement was delivered by ICRC Director-General Robert Mardini at a press conference on 1 September 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Good morning. It is a pleasure for me to address both …
31-08-2022 The ICRC stands with all the families of the missing; remembering Iraqis who have gone missing due to decades of armed conflict and calling on all actors to strengthen their efforts in …
31-08-2022 Nairobi (ICRC) - More than 150,000 households, most of them in south and central Somalia, received enough money to buy food for a month, the first in a series of monthly payments intended …
30-08-2022 Dakar/Nairobi (ICRC) - More than 25,000 minors are missing across Africa, according to the latest figures shared by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Children represent …
30-08-2022 According to the latest figures shared by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 64,000 cases of disappeared persons have been reported across Africa. In Nigeria alone, over …
30-08-2022 30 August marks the International Day of the Disappeared aimed at raising awareness of governments, communities, media and public about the plight of people who went missing as a result of …
29-08-2022 Pristina (ICRC) – More than 20 years after the armed conflict in Kosovo, the families of more than 1’600 missing persons are still looking for their loved ones. Behind every missing person …
29-08-2022 Geneva (ICRC) -The director-general of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Robert Mardini, is in Ukraine this week to take stock of the ICRC’s humanitarian activities. He will …
29-08-2022 Over 5,700 cases of missing people are currently being followed by the ICRC and the South Sudan Red Cross. The actual number of missing people in South Sudan is probably much higher, as …
22-08-2022 Geneva (ICRC) - The depth of emotional anguish that the international armed conflict is inflicting on communities is evident in the voices of families desperate for news of their loved …
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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.
