20-10-2021 Today, under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the remains of a Saudi national who went missing during the 1990-1991 Gulf War were handed over by the …
12-10-2021 Jerusalem – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) calls for safe, timely, and adequate access to olive groves of Palestinian farmers in the West Bank during the yearly olive …
11-10-2021 Massive displacement in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique's northern province, has put an enormous strain on existing water and health facilities, some of which were previously damaged by extreme …
07-10-2021 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) convene today, the first-ever meeting of the Oversight Committee for Missing …
04-10-2021 Jerusalem – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is seriously concerned about the deteriorating health of Mr. Kayed Nammoura (Fasfous) and Mr. Miqdad Qawasmeh, two …
30-09-2021 I’m saddened to see fighting flaring up again in Yemen, this time in Marib. The International Committee of the Red Cross is providing hospitals treating the wounded on both sides with …
16-09-2021 Geneva (ICRC) – The 16th meeting of the Coordination Mechanism seeking to clarify the fate and whereabouts of people missing in relation to 1990s and August 2008 armed conflicts took place …
08-09-2021 The following is a statement from Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, at the end of a four-day trip to Afghanistan. Kabul (ICRC) – The scars of war …
05-09-2021 Peter Maurer, the president of the ICRC, arrived in Afghanistan today for a three-day visit. While in the country, he plans to visit ICRC-supported medical facilities, the ICRC's …
30-08-2021 On the eve of the International Day of the Disappeared, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in collaboration with the Embassy of Switzerland in Lebanon, launched the …
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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.
