18-03-2021 Joint Statement from the ICRC, the government of Argentina and the government of the United Kingdom. Geneva (ICRC) – Representatives from Argentina and the United Kingdom today signed an …
10-03-2021 Geneva (ICRC) – As the crisis in Syria moves into its second decade, a survey commissioned by the International Committee of the Red Cross highlights the heavy price paid by young Syrians. …
09-03-2021 The Regional Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross believes that the pandemic poses an additional challenge to populations that have been impacted by violence and …
09-03-2021 Bangui – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has sent an aid convoy from Cameroon to the Central African Republic (CAR) with 135 tonnes of food – enough to feed almost …
06-03-2021 Today, under the umbrella of the Tripartite Commission nine human remains including a Saudi citizen, among the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia missing persons list, gone missing during the …
05-03-2021 Ouagadougou (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is alarmed that acts of armed violence in Burkina Faso continue to target civilians, the sick, health-care workers …
04-03-2021 Communities in nine out of the ten states in South Sudan harvested on average 50 per cent less cereal and vegetables in 2020 than they did in 2019, the latest assessment by the …
20-02-2021 Bangui (ICRC) – On 15 and 16 February, violent clashes between state armed forces and armed groups broke out in the town of Bambari. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) …
17-02-2021 “Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, conflicts across the world have continued to rage while new armed confrontations have flared. More than 160 million people live in fragile and …
16-02-2021 CAIRO (ICRC): The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has donated essential personal protective equipment (PPE) and medical supplies, worth 1.5 million Egyptian Pounds, to 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.
