09-03-2022 Cairo, Geneva (ICRC) – Egyptian Minister of Justice Omar Marwan and President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer signed on Monday a memorandum of …
06-03-2022 Geneva (ICRC) - Amid devastating scenes of human suffering in Mariupol, a second attempt today to start evacuating an estimated 200,000 people out of the city came to a halt. The failed …
05-03-2022 We understand that the safe passage operations from Mariupol and Volnovakha will not start today. We remain in dialogue with the parties about the safe passage of civilians from different …
04-03-2022 A statement from ICRC President Peter Maurer Geneva (ICRC) – We are seeing a devastating humanitarian crisis unfold in Ukraine. Today, the ICRC is urgently reminding the parties to the …
01-03-2022 Geneva (ICRC/IFRC) - With the humanitarian situation in Ukraine and neighbouring countries deteriorating rapidly, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and International …
26-02-2022 Kyiv (ICRC) – "As the armed conflict in Ukraine evolves and escalates, the anguish and fear people have endured for the past three days deepen. We are extremely concerned that the conflict …
25-02-2022 Kabul (ICRC) – The international community must step up urgently to stop Afghanistan's rapid slide towards total collapse and all-out humanitarian disaster, warned international Red Cross …
23-02-2022 11 110 internet connections have been made since the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Zimbabwe Red Cross Society (ZRCS) launched its connectivity service. The …
22-02-2022 To increase accessibility of services for migrants and their families, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Zimbabwe Red Cross Society (ZRCS) have officially opened …
19-02-2022 Hostilities disrupt water services to more than one million people in eastern Ukraine Civilian infrastructure providing essential services protected under international law Repairs to …
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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.
