Migration, disappearances, violence, use of force and prision emergency: the 5 most pressing issues in 2022 By Jordi Raich, head of the ICRC's regional delegation for Mexico and Central America. …
For the past 150 years, the ICRC’s Central Tracing Agency has been helping people separated from their loved ones. We are entrusted by the Geneva Conventions as a neutral intermediary to assist …
Since 2014, the Lake Chad crisis has been affecting the people of Cameroon’s Extreme North region. Hundreds of thousands have fled, most of them remaining inside the country. In 2016, people in …
Speech given by Mr. Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, at Antalya Diplomacy Forum Excellencies, distinguished guests, The call of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum to …
A statement by Helen Durham, Director of Law and Policy, ICRC Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is alarmed by recent statements made with respect to nuclear weapons …
Rules and recommendations relating to the protection of the natural environment under international humanitarian law, with commentary The natural environment has frequently remained a silent casualty …
13-03-2022 Geneva (ICRC) – A worst-case scenario awaits the hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped by heavy combat in Mariupol unless the parties reach a concrete humanitarian agreement urgently, …
COVID-19 vaccination uptake in indigenous communities in Peru. The American continent has recorded the highest number of COVID-19 deaths globally since the start of the pandemic. Access to …
In Myanmar, landmines and other explosive remnants of war shatter lives. Hundreds of people are killed or injured every year. Last year, we supported 160 people affected by incidents involving …
Statement Statement by the International Committee of the Red Cross prepared for the meeting of Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems of the Convention on Certain …
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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.
