Honouring families of missing migrants
Resources: Online Tracing service from our Restoring Family Links site RedSafe, our Digital Humanitarian …
Resources: Online Tracing service from our Restoring Family Links site RedSafe, our Digital Humanitarian …
23-06-2022 More than eight hundred children have lost contact with their parents in the wake of violent clashes in Rutshuru Territory between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo …
A devastating earthquake in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Paktika on 22 June has claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people and injured even more. Following the deadly quake, the Afghan Red …
23-06-2022 Geneva, 23 June 2022 - The Council of delegates of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement concluded today in Geneva with commitments from Red Cross and Red Crescent leaders …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) distributed thousands of bio-traps to help Palestinian farmers in several Palestinian villages …
Statement Speech given by Mr Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross on the Economic and Social Council's Humanitarian Affairs Segment of the United Nations. 22 June …
Statement Joint Statement by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) - First Meeting of States Parties to the …
22-06-2022 Geneva (ICRC) – The humanitarian situation of millions of civilians is particularly concerning in densely populated areas affected by the ongoing hostilities. The impact of the fighting is …
A few seconds was all it took for an atomic bomb to wipe out thousands of lives in Hiroshima, Japan in 1945. The ICRC's Dr Marcel Junod was the first foreign doctor to reach Hiroshima to treat some …
“Today’s meal is fish curry. It is one of my youngest son’s favourite dishes.” – Shon CC BY-NC-ND / ICRC / Hla Yamin Eain “I am cooking prawns with banana stems. It is simple to cook and takes just a …
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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.