19-05-2022 Geneva (ICRC) – A team from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has registered hundreds of Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) this week from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. …
17-05-2022 Mexico City (ICRC) – Mexico has now officially registered more than 100,000 reported missing person cases since 1964. It's a staggering number that underscores the immediate need to …
13-05-2022 A statement from Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), following a trip to Syria this week: It takes years, sometimes decades, for societies …
12-05-2022 Cairo (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Egypt’s Ain Shams University signed on Monday a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on education and legal research on …
12-05-2022 Sahel (ICRC) - More than 10.5 million people in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Mauritania are at risk of facing hunger during the upcoming agricultural lean period -- the time between …
10-05-2022 Joint statement from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) on the Brussels VI Conference on …
08-05-2022 Geneva (ICRC) – After weeks of living largely underground with dwindling food, water and medicine, more than 170 civilians from Azovstal and the Mariupol area arrived in Zaporizhzhia on …
08-05-2022 Papua New Guinea (PNG), 8 May 2022 – Today we are celebrating World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day, a day dedicated to recognizing the support given by Red Cross/Red Crescent staff and …
06-05-2022 Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) facilitated the repatriation of 117 detainees on Friday from Saudi Arabia to Yemen, following a request from the Joint …
04-05-2022 Geneva (ICRC) – Over 300 civilians arrived in Zaporizhzhia on 4 May from Mariupol and surrounding areas following a new safe passage operation coordinated by the International Committee of …
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Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.
