08-11-2019 Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply concerned for the civilian population in north-east Syria amid an ongoing shutdown of a key regional water …
02-12-2019 Juba, South Sudan (ICRC)—Eighty wheelchair basketball players, including—for the first time—15 women, from across South Sudan have gathered in Juba for three weeks of training led by two …
03-12-2019 Geneva (ICRC) – With the goal of increasing sports opportunities and societal acceptance for people with disabilities, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is in the midst …
04-12-2019 Pretoria/Geneva (ICRC) – Armed violence in Mozambique's northernmost province Cabo Delgado is forcing scores of people from their homes, destroying villages and health centres, and making …
05-12-2019 Juba (ICRC) – Twenty-nine people suffering gunshot wounds from intercommunal clashes in Western Lakes State have been evacuated by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) by …
12-12-2019 Geneva (ICRC/IFRC) - Representatives from 168 States joined 187 Red Cross Red Crescent Societies, at the International Conference in Geneva which closed today. The International …
18-12-2019 Geneva/Kinshasa (ICRC) – When the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo announced, on 8 December, that they had captured a group of over 1,800 people in the Kalehe …
03-01-2020 Juba (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has facilitated the release and transport to Juba of 23 persons – including 11 children – previously held in Central …
03-01-2020 Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is concerned by the further deterioration of the humanitarian situation in northwestern Syria. Since mid-October …
16-01-2020 Almost half of all millennials think it is more likely than not there will be a third world war in their lifetime, a new Red Cross survey finds. That's the result of a global survey of …
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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.
