15-06-2021 Panama City / Ottawa / Geneva, 15 June 2021 – To respond to the unmet needs of Venezuelan migrants, including refugees, living in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Red Cross Red …
28-05-2021 Fearing another eruption of the Nyiragongo volcano in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), thousands of people are fleeing the city of Goma and its surroundings. The …
27-05-2021 Geneva/Addis-Ababa/Khartoum (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is asking donors for an additional 28 million Swiss francs ($31.3 million) for its operations in …
24-05-2021 Following the outbreak of hostilities in Gaza two weeks ago, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is increasing the number of field personnel it has there to enhance its …
21-05-2021 Dakar (ICRC) – Dozens of civilians have been killed in the East, North and Sahel Regions of Burkina Faso, where armed conflict and other situations of violence, including communal …
19-05-2021 Geneva (ICRC) – In an ideal world, health-care workers who risk their lives to save others would have just as many supporters as footballers. Unfortunately, that’s far from the reality. …
16-05-2021 Geneva (ICRC) – The populations in Gaza and Israel are facing the most intense cycle of hostilities in years. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is urging the parties to …
11-05-2021 Statement in the name of Fabrizio Carboni, Regional Director for the Near and Middle East, ICRC "The recent rockets in Israel and airstrikes in Gaza represent a dangerous escalation of the …
10-05-2021 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has donated personal protective equipment (PPE) and oxygen concentrators to Egypt’s Ministry of Health to support national efforts to …
08-05-2021 Jerusalem (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply worried about the recent spike of violent confrontations in Jerusalem. Last night our partners from 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.
