11-08-2020 One week after a devastating explosion ripped through Beirut, the city's remaining hospitals are still full and hundreds of thousands of people need help to rebuild their lives. Hopes of …
11-08-2020 Tbilisi (ICRC) – The family members of 13 people unaccounted for in connection with the 1992-1993 armed conflict in Abkhazia have been informed that their loved ones were identified by the …
10-08-2020 The tragic events that took place in Beirut have shocked us all. This tragedy, the scale and extent of the destruction, the casualties, the displaced and the missing, is all the more …
09-08-2020 Baghdad – The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement deplores violence and acts of intimidation against health workers and urges respect for all medical personnel, vehicles, and …
06-08-2020 Abuja (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) welcomes Nigeria's commitment to contribute to a global ban on nuclear weapons by ratifying the Treaty on the Prohibition …
05-08-2020 The International Committee of the Red Cross is actively responding to the aftermath of the explosion in Beirut and remains committed to supporting Lebanon during these difficult times. - …
31-07-2020 The International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement urges all nations to end the nuclear era. Seventy-five years ago, on the morning of 6 August 1945, a B-29 warplane released a terrifying …
30-07-2020 CAIRO (ICRC / ERC): The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has donated essential personal protective equipment, worth more than 1 million Egyptian pound, to the Egyptian Red …
27-07-2020 Bangui (ICRC) – The struggle against COVID-19 is intensifying against the background of the alarming spread of the disease in the Central African Republic (CAR). Although the number of …
14-07-2020 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is concerned about the humanitarian impact of reported military activity along the international border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, …
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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.
