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 …
28-06-2022 Maputo (ICRC) – Mozambique’s national immunization campaign has vaccinated over 1 million people -- 75% of the population -- in six districts affected by armed conflict in the provinces of …
23-06-2022 More than eight hundred children have lost contact with their parents in the wake of violent clashes in Rutshuru Territory between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo …
23-06-2022 Geneva, 23 June 2022 - The Council of delegates of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement concluded today in Geneva with commitments from Red Cross and Red Crescent leaders …
22-06-2022 Geneva (ICRC) – The humanitarian situation of millions of civilians is particularly concerning in densely populated areas affected by the ongoing hostilities. The impact of the fighting is …
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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.
