12-08-2022 A statement by Christine Cipolla, ICRC's regional director for Asia and the Pacific. Nearly a year ago when I visited Afghanistan, the medical system was about to shut down. The country's …
10-08-2022 Geneva (ICRC) – Each new round of violence in the Gaza Strip and Israel sparks a crisis of hope, as the fighting revives and creates new trauma on both sides. Only political steps can …
29-07-2022 Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross is aware of reports concerning an attack on a facility where prisoners of war (PoWs) were being held, along with other people …
29-07-2022 (New York) – The rising costs of food staples in armed conflict-affected countries and the dramatic decline of livelihoods for the people of Ukraine were priority topics during a …
28-07-2022 Geneva (ICRC) - Over 3,000 persons with disability have benefited from physical rehabilitation services in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Mali and Nigeria, thanks to the first …
12-07-2022 Geneva (ICRC) – Hundreds of millions of people are at risk of severe hunger in the coming months as extreme poverty, inequality and food insecurity rise, particularly in parts of Africa …
07-07-2022 Kalemie (ICRC) – 83 children, aged between five and 19, were reunited with their families in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The children had lost contact with their loved ones …
05-07-2022 Cairo (ICRC / ERC) –The Egyptian Red Crescent Society (ERCS), in cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), concluded the distribution of 370 tons of food aid to …
04-07-2022 Maputo (ICRC) – To respond to a new wave of displacement in Northern Mozambique the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in collaboration with the Mozambican Red Cross, …
29-06-2022 The SAF aims to reduce and mitigate risks related to armed violence that professionals and the population they serve are exposed to in their daily lives Katowice, Poland (ICRC) – The Safer …
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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.
