04-04-2022 Abuja - Thousands of families are on the move in northeast Nigeria heading to remote locations. Some are going back home following camp closure in Maiduguri. Others are fleeing areas …
01-04-2022 Geneva (ICRC) - An International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) team that had been on its way to Mariupol on Friday to facilitate the safe passage of civilians had to return to …
31-03-2022 Our teams are traveling right now with pre-positioned relief items and medical supplies to be ready to facilitate the safe passage of civilians out of Mariupol. For logistics and security …
31-03-2022 Geneva (ICRC) – Gains in maternal and child health risk being lost if the international community does not step in to support Afghanistan’s flailing public infrastructure, warns Peter …
30-03-2022 We can confirm that an image being circulated online shows damage to the ICRC warehouse in Mariupol. We do not have a team on the ground there, so have no other information on potential …
29-03-2022 Geneva (ICRC) – As the international armed conflict in Ukraine enters its fifth week, the level of death, destruction and suffering that continues to be inflicted on civilians is abhorrent …
26-03-2022 Geneva (ICRC) - Over the past days, false information about the ICRC has been circulated that we must address, as it could have a major impact on people affected by the conflict in …
25-03-2022 The Humanitarian Report is an annual account of the work of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, including support and …
24-03-2022 Moscow (ICRC) – Peter Maurer, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), has completed a two-day visit to Moscow where he continued ongoing humanitarian …
23-03-2022 Geneva (ICRC) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer, arrived in Moscow on Wednesday to continue the ICRC’s ongoing humanitarian discussions …
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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.
