28-12-2020 Bangui (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been forced to drastically reduce its humanitarian activities in Bouar in Nana-Mambéré prefecture after its office …
24-12-2020 Cairo (ICRC / ERC) – The Egyptian Red Crescent (ERC), in cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), has distributed food and hygiene parcels to 1,500 families …
24-12-2020 In November 2020, the Oman Ministry of Health and the ICRC have launched the first phase of a 4-phase training course on the management of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear …
17-12-2020 Operational Update Juba (ICRC) – Massive flooding that residents say they haven't seen before has left hundreds of thousands of people displaced with little or no means to survive across …
15-12-2020 One month after ceasefire deal, deep humanitarian needs persist One month after a ceasefire deal in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict came into effect, hundreds of thousands of people remain …
10-12-2020 ICRC plants saplings in the memory of those who went missing during the conflicts in former Yugoslavia during 1990s Belgrade (ICRC) – To mark Human Rights Day, the International Committee …
07-12-2020 Gaza City (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Palestinian Ministry of Waqf and Religious Affairs in Gaza have joined forces in a campaign to convince …
23-11-2020 Addis Ababa (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has not received 858 members of the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) as it was reported. However, the ICRC …
19-11-2020 Abuja/Geneva- The first physical rehabilitation centre in the Borno state capital Maiduguri opens today, bringing physical rehabilitation services to hundreds of people living with …
18-11-2020 Addis Ababa / Geneva (ICRC) – In just two weeks, escalating fighting in Tigray and northern Ethiopia has triggered immense suffering and risks spiralling into a wider humanitarian crisis. …
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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.
