27-10-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – A war surgery team and a weapon contamination specialist are among ten International Committee of the Red Cross experts who arrived in Gaza on Friday, entering alongside …
20-10-2023 Statement from ICRC president Mirjana Spoljaric on the release of two hostages and the ICRC's role as a neutral intermediary. Geneva (ICRC)—The release of two hostages in Gaza today is a …
13-10-2023 Geneva (ICRC) — Nothing can justify the horrific attacks Israel suffered last weekend. Our hearts go out to people who lost family members or are worried sick about loved ones taken …
13-10-2023 A statement from Patrick Youssef, ICRC’s regional director for Africa Geneva (ICRC) – Six months after the conflict broke out in Sudan, I feel pained and frustrated. This tragedy has …
12-10-2023 A statement from Fabrizio Carboni, the regional director for the Near and Middle East for the International Committee of the Red Cross. Geneva (ICRC) – The human misery caused by this …
10-10-2023 Port-au-Prince (ICRC) – Extreme levels of armed violence in Haiti are preventing an increasing number of people from accessing essential services like health care. Many health facilities …
10-10-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – The recent violence in Israel and Gaza is at a level we have not seen in many years and has the potential to escalate dramatically, causing even more pain and anguish on …
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 …
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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.
