12-11-2020 This week marks two years since the Lebanese Parliament passed Law 105 on the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared, thus acknowledging the families’ right to know the fate and whereabouts of …
06-11-2020 Kyiv (ICRC) - The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer completed his five-day visit to Ukraine today. Mr Maurer met the president of Ukraine as …
02-11-2020 Juba (ICRC) – Months of conflict followed by torrential rains have created a deepening humanitarian crisis in which communities now face a heightened risk of hunger, malnutrition and …
30-10-2020 Khartoum (ICRC) – Clashes, climate shocks and COVID-19 are driving more Sudanese into poverty and threatening the health and well-being of hundreds of thousands of people who were already …
29-10-2020 Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has facilitated the handover of bodies of combatants killed in action during the recent escalation of the …
28-10-2020 A statement from Martin Schüepp, International Committee of the Red Cross Eurasia Regional Director, in Geneva. "Alongside thousands of civilians, the ICRC witnessed intense shelling in …
26-10-2020 Geneva/New York, 24 October 2020 – The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement welcomes the coming into force of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Fifty …
21-10-2020 Abuja (ICRC) – First responders seeking to assist the wounded must be allowed to do their work unimpeded in Nigeria’s ongoing protests, while live ammunition must be used only as a last …
16-10-2020 Geneva (ICRC) – More than 1,000 people formerly detained in relation to the conflict in Yemen were transported back to their region of origin or to their home countries by the …
16-10-2020 Abuja (ICRC) — The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has seen an increase in malnutrition rates among children in nutrition centres it supports in Nigeria. The number of …
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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.
