30-08-2020 Today marks the International Day of the Disappeared – a day created to remember missing persons worldwide and put the plight of their families on the agenda of decision-makers. In Iraq, …
28-08-2020 ICRC, Paris – International Day of the Disappeared marks a little-known and complex humanitarian issue: the plight of families searching for loved ones who have disappeared. This year, the …
28-08-2020 Juba (ICRC)—As 30 August marks the International Day of the Disappeared, thousands of South Sudanese intensify their search for their missing loved ones, an agonizing effort now recognized …
26-08-2020 Nairobi (ICRC)—As 30 August marks International Day of the Disappeared, nearly 44,000 people across Africa are registered as missing with the International Committee of the Red Cross …
25-08-2020 Beirut/Geneva (ICRC) – Three weeks after a massive explosion ripped through Beirut port and surrounding neighbourhoods, the physical and psychological damage it inflicted is staggering. At …
25-08-2020 Nairobi (ICRC)—Primary health care visits and vaccination coverage have sharply declined in Somalia amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, raising concerns that diseases such as respiratory …
20-08-2020 Geneva (ICRC)— War-torn Libya's COVID-19 cases have increased more than 15-fold in less than two months, spiking from 571 in June to more than 9,000 today . More than half a million people …
19-08-2020 Jerusalem (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on 19 August made a sizeable donation of personal protective equipment (PPE) to the Palestinian Ministry of Health as …
18-08-2020 Recent armed violence in Jonglei State and Greater Pibor Administrative Area has forcibly uprooted thousands of people from their homes and left entire areas without access to medical …
18-08-2020 More than 600 incidents of violence, harassment or stigmatization against health care workers, patients and medical infrastructure in relation to COVID-19 cases have been recorded by 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.
