Strengthening protection for victims of armed conflict in a world of complex crises will be the central theme of a four-day conference in Canberra from 20-23 July, co-hosted by the Australian …
Would you like to work for a humanitarian organization like the ICRC? Would you like to have more insight into humanitarian jobs and the roles we fulfill? The videos in this " Working for the ICRC " …
With no let-up in the crisis, people continue to seek safety by crossing from Syria to Jordan. The majority enter Jordan through the country’s north-eastern border area, where the scorching summer …
The Burundi Red Cross and the ICRC have been working together to treat people injured in the violence surrounding upcoming elections. Mobile first aid teams were set up across the capital and have …
A victim, veiled to protect her identity, testifies in court. © Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi Students flock around a van bringing women to testify in a makeshift courtroom set up in the auditorium of a …
Since the beginning of 2015 the ICRC and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC), working according to the principles of neutrality and impartiality, have assisted close to two million people, mostly the …
On 30 June, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement – North (SPLM-N) signed the ' Geneva Call 's' Deed of Commitment for the Protection of Children, which aims to reduce the effects of armed conflict …
Should the ICRC be talking to religious circles and, if so, how can the organization do so without compromising its neutral humanitarian mission? From Iraq to the Vatican, from Mexico to Jerusalem, …
Nget Chaung II IDP camp Pauktaw township, Rakhine State, Myanmar Families living in camps and isolated villages lack access to cooking fuel. To cook their meals, families use pieces broken off their …
The impact of violence on health-care workers was a central topic at the 20th Inter-American Conference of the Red Cross in Houston, Texas, in the United States. Similarly, other events and workshops …
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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.
