When a crisis or emergency occurs, the first to provide essential aid – be it bandaging a wound or offering much needed comfort – is our community. The ICRC works with Red Cross and Red Crescent …
Cyber warfare, autonomous weapons and the use of explosive weapons in densely populated areas are among the topics for the third Conference of National Committees on International Humanitarian Law of …
10-09-2015 Manila (ICRC) – Around 2,700 people fled their homes in Surigao del Sur, Eastern Mindanao, in the aftermath of armed violence last week. To support them, the International Committee of the …
10-09-2015 Akkar, North Lebanon. The ICRC provided food and hygiene items to more than 2500 Lebanese and Syrian families. September, 2015. Ⓒ ICRC/Ghaith Tahtah The International Committee of the Red …
A summary of the ICRC's activities in Ethiopia between January and June 2015. ACTIVITIES IN THE FEDERAL DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF ETHIOPIA The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an …
South Sudan: Facts and figures September 2015 - A summary of the ICRC's activities in South Sudan since the beginning of the emergency in mid-December 2013 to the end of August 2015. As a result of …
We at the ICRC have been working across the front lines in Yemen to help hundreds of thousands of people in need, despite worsening security conditions, in what has become one of the world's most …
13-09-2015 Statement by Nepal Red Cross Society, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) (Kathmandu) The Red Cross …
14-09-2015 Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross is hosting a two-day conference, bringing together prominent humanitarians and academics to reflect critically on the history …
Refugee families often get split up during their long journey to safety – but the Red Cross Tracing service with its world-wide network is specialized in finding missing persons. The first tracing …
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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.
