Dear Madam, Sir, The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is pleased to launch a Request for Tender in connection with the following project: Provision of DNA Analysis Services for Missing …
12-07-2022 Geneva (ICRC) – Hundreds of millions of people are at risk of severe hunger in the coming months as extreme poverty, inequality and food insecurity rise, particularly in parts of Africa …
The use of explosive weapons with a wide impact area in populated areas is one of the main causes of civilian harm in today’s armed conflicts. This extract of a longer report unpacks the avoidance …
Hundreds of thousands of people are missing around the world as a result of armed conflict, other situations of violence, disasters and in the context of migration. In many cases, efforts to address …
07-07-2022 Kalemie (ICRC) – 83 children, aged between five and 19, were reunited with their families in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The children had lost contact with their loved ones …
Dear Madam, Sir, The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is pleased to launch a Request for Tender in connection with the following project: Framework Agreement for Purchase of Tractor …
Dear Madam, Sir, The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is pleased to launch a Request for Tender in connection with the following project: Framework Agreement for Purchase of General …
On July 4, 2022, Beijing, China, Pierre Krähenbühl, the personal envoy of the ICRC president to China and head of regional delegation for East Asia, delivers a speech at the panel on "United Nations, …
Sana’a (ICRC) – Eight years into the armed conflict in Yemen, violence, economic hardship and deteriorating health services and health infrastructure increasingly keep women and girls from being able …
For Svetlana, an elderly resident in the Donetsk region, living through the hostilities these last few months has been overwhelming. "I have no money at all so I can´t buy food, not even bread," she …
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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.
