11-05-2020 Geneva – Nurses and other health care workers on the frontlines of the fight against COVID-19 deserve to be recognized and commended for their life-saving efforts and personal sacrifices …
07-05-2020 The Rwanda Red Cross Society as an auxiliary to the Public Authorities, with the support of International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), International Federation of Red Cross and Red …
29-04-2020 GENEVA (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) calls on governments to systematically include migrants, irrespective of legal status, in their programmes and policies …
28-04-2020 The donation includes sewing machines and cleaning and sanitation products for three state detention centres Brasilia (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) donated …
23-04-2020 ICRC (Sanaa) - People across Yemen will mark Islam's holy month this year amid ongoing conflict, seasonal diseases, floods and rising prices, in a country where the economic situation …
23-04-2020 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today donated a consignment of vital intensive care equipment to Gazan hospitals but warned that much more needs to be done to get Gaza …
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 …
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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.
