23-01-2019 Kabul (ICRC) – A record number of disabled Afghans – more than 12,000 people – sought assistance for the first time in 2018 at physical rehabilitation centres run by the International …
22-01-2019 Geneva (ICRC) – The effects of climate change are exacerbating conflict between communities in both Mali and Niger, leading to a deepening of poverty, a weakening of public services and a …
16-01-2019 The ICRC develops its first massive open online course (MOOC) on sustainability in humanitarian action The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has developed a new online course …
31-12-2018 Juba (ICRC) - The ICRC has managed to facilitate the release and transport by air to Juba of 22 persons, who had been caught up in ongoing nearby fighting, from a remote location in the …
23-12-2018 Kuwait City (ICRC) - From 9 to 13 December, around 430 military personnel (personnel, officers and non-commissioned officers) from the north-western military base of Tabuk in addition to a …
20-12-2018 Cairo -Tripoli (ICRC) – In coordination with the authorities in Libya, Egypt and Malta, and through the support of Libyan and Egyptian Red Crescent Societies and the Malta Red Cross, the …
14-12-2018 Addis Ababa (ICRC) – In the wave of historic reforms that have swept Ethiopia this year, the needs of the country's displaced people must not be forgotten, the president of the …
07-12-2018 Geneva (ICRC) – The humanitarian sector’s growing use of digital and mobile technologies creates records that can be accessed and misused by third parties, potentially putting people …
06-12-2018 Quotes by Fabrizio Carboni, the regional director for the Near and Middle East for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) We welcome this agreement between Yemeni parties for …
06-12-2018 A statement from the International Committee of the Red Cross on the Global Compact on Migration Migrants are first and foremost human beings. The suffering experienced during a …
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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.
