23-04-2020 Port Moresby (ICRC) – As the COVID-19 pandemic looms, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has stepped up its humanitarian response in Papua New Guinea and adopted a …
22-04-2020 Mexico City – The regional delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for Mexico and Central America published its 2020 report highlighting the main humanitarian …
22-04-2020 Detainees across the Solomon Islands can now call their loved ones with the support from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Due to the ongoing global threat of COVID-19 , …
22-04-2020 Geneva (ICRC) – The number of deaths caused by COVID-19 could overwhelm local capacity to handle dead bodies properly, the International Committee of the Red Cross warned today. Officials …
17-04-2020 Geneva / Kiev (ICRC) – Even as preventive measures are being implemented to contain the spread of COVID-19 , an increase in hostilities is making life more difficult for residents along …
16-04-2020 Conflict-hit countries need urgent support to stem the spread of COVID-19 and prepare for a potentially devastating aftermath, the International Committee of the Red Cross’ Near and Middle …
14-04-2020 Nairobi (ICRC) - As the world battles COVID-19 , farmers in East Africa are facing another devastating outbreak: swarms of desert locusts. The International Committee of the Red Cross …
12-04-2020 Tunis (ICRC)—Hundreds of thousands of Libyans are caught in an intensifying conflict as COVID-19 threatens to spread and debilitate the country's fragile health system. The International …
09-04-2020 Brasilia (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) donated personal protection, sanitary and cleaning products on Wednesday and Thursday (April 7 & 8) to the Manaus (AM) …
09-04-2020 Juba (ICRC)—South Sudan has a critical window in which actions can be taken to curb the spread of COVID-19 and avert the worst. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) fears …
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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.
