23-09-2015 Kiev/Donetsk (ICRC) – A new round of aid distributions is being carried out by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on both sides of the front line and will continue until …
Since 17 September, the ICRC and the South Sudan Red Cross (SSRC) have been working tirelessly to help the victims of the fuel truck explosion in Maridi, which claimed the lives of over 180 people. A …
Working with the support of the ICRC, the French and Italian Red Cross Societies recently set up a cross-border "restoring family links" operation to help migrants re-establish contact with their …
Syrian refugee Imtisal escaped the bombs and bullets of her native country, making the gruelling journey as far as Serbia unscathed. Then a car accident put her in hospital with serious injuries, …
The 5-nation International Cricket Tournament for People with Physical Disabilities successfully concluded on 10 September, with England crowned the winner. The event, inaugurated by Her Excellency …
This year, even our efforts to help people in the world's major warzones are underfunded. That's why we're appealing for additional funding, so that we can help people suffering the effects of war …
The new report, Civil legal issues related to the families of the missing in Nepal , commissioned by the ICRC, highlights the legal and administrative issues faced by the families of the missing. The …
Many people have gone missing during conflict and violence in Lebanon. Proper anthropological and archaeological analyses of their human remains is an essential step for the identification. Lebanese …
In 2015, the ICRC has stepped up its efforts to help some of the many hundreds of thousands of people affected by the Lake Chad conflict who lack even the basic necessities of life. We are building …
Médecins Sans Frontières Australia (MSF) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) are hosting a symposium on the relevance and application of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) in …
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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.
