05-10-2023 In a joint appeal today, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, and the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric, are calling on …
26-09-2023 Geneva (ICRC) –The thousands of people now fleeing their homes, as well as anyone who does so in the future, must be shielded from harm. As individual families make decisions about whether …
26-09-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – Hundreds of burn victims of an explosion at a fuel depot are in urgent need of specialized medical care. Teams from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) are …
23-09-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – Nearly 70 metric tons of humanitarian supplies crossed the Lachin road on Saturday 23 September on an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) convoy. The …
22-09-2023 Geneva (ICRC) - Nine people wounded in the recent hostilities were evacuated by a team from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Friday. Though a cease-fire was declared …
19-09-2023 Geneva (ICRC)–Following today’s escalation of hostilities, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is extremely concerned about the humanitarian impact on civilians in the …
18-09-2023 Geneva (ICRC) — As a result of persistent diplomatic efforts to find a humanitarian consensus between the decision-makers, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Monday is …
15-09-2023 Ndjamena/Khartoum (ICRC) – Thirty children were released by the Sudanese Armed Forces on Friday in an operation facilitated by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). …
15-09-2023 Ensuring dignity of dead bodies and emotional closure for surviving family is essential ICRC/IFRC/WHO - Joint news release Geneva – Amid devastating loss of life due to disasters and …
12-09-2023 WAD MADANI (ICRC)- Together with the Sudanese Red Crescent Society (SRCS), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) launched this week a community kitchen in Al Fashir, North …
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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.
