01-09-2022 This statement was delivered by ICRC Director-General Robert Mardini at a press conference on 1 September 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Good morning. It is a pleasure for me to address both …
Dear Madam/Sir, The International Committee of the Red Cross is pleased to invite you to participate in a joint ICRC/IOM Request for Tender (RFT/ICRC/IOM/GVA22/00141) to establish a new …
In the first half of 2022, the humanitarian needs remained unfortunately immense in Ethiopia. As part of our neutral and impartial humanitarian response, we have adopted a countrywide approach to …
This 19th edition will take place from 19-20 November 2022 Since 2004, the ICRC Kuala Lumpur has been partnering with a local university to organize an International Humanitarian Law moot court …
31-08-2022 The ICRC stands with all the families of the missing; remembering Iraqis who have gone missing due to decades of armed conflict and calling on all actors to strengthen their efforts in …
31-08-2022 Nairobi (ICRC) - More than 150,000 households, most of them in south and central Somalia, received enough money to buy food for a month, the first in a series of monthly payments intended …
Thousands of people have been forced to flee Myanmar’s Kayah State as clashes escalate, with many relying on the goodwill of others to meet basic needs. A father who wishes he could have warned his …
On International Day of the Disappeared, which is commemorated on Aug. 30th, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) highlights the importance of joining forces to find out the fate of …
Two years ago, Hakimullah, a young boy with a physical disability lost contact with his family in the southern Uruzgan province of Afghanistan following an armed clash that broke out in his village. …
The principle of 'universal jurisdiction' entitles a state to prosecute offenders even in the absence of any link between the crime committed and the prosecuting state. It is based on the notion that …
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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.
