21-07-2021 Afghanistan is among the deadliest places in the world to be a civilian, and where women and children make up nearly half of all civilian casualties. In addition to the increased violence …
18-07-2021 Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has started visiting members of the Ethiopian armed forces in the Tigray region earlier this week. “Visiting people in …
15-07-2021 Commercial activity in the Tigray region of Ethiopia is hampered by the ongoing crisis that began with fighting nine months ago. Over the last two weeks, since commercial traffic ground to …
09-07-2021 The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement expresses its solidarity with the Haitian people, in particular those who have faced many hardships because of the cyclone season, the …
09-07-2021 Beijing, 9 July 2021 – The World Bank, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) recently launched a report titled ‘Joining Forces …
06-07-2021 Muscat/Kuwait: 06 July 2021 – The President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer conducted a series of meetings with high-level officials in Oman on 06 July …
06-07-2021 Jerusalem – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is seriously concerned about the deteriorating health of Mr. Ghadanfar Abu-Atwan, a Palestinian administratively detained …
05-07-2021 Juba (ICRC) – The people of South Sudan have been battered by the ravages of conflict and armed violence during most of the first decade of the state’s existence. Underscoring the scale of …
01-07-2021 Kananga (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) officially left the Kasai Region, in central Democratic Republic of the Congo, on 30 June 2021. After four years of …
26-06-2021 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) strongly condemns the killing of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff members in Tigray region of Ethiopia on June 25. We stand in …
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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.
