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 …
Continuously raging violence in Taiz, Marib, Al-Bayda, Hodeida, Shabwah, Al-Jawf and Hajjah has forced over 157,500 people into displacement in 2021 only, adding to the over 3.3 million people who …
On a particularly sunny morning with the wind high upon the horizon, the town of Tuliguled, which is situated 30 km from Jijiga, the capital of the Somali region, is just waking up. Ready to start …
09-03-2022 The humanitarian situation in Ukraine is increasingly dire and desperate, and the ICRC is scaling up its response by the hour to meet people’s vast needs. In just two weeks, homes have …
On 9 March 2022 , at 15:30pm CET, (9:30am EST), the International Organization for Migration's Missing Migrants Project and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will be hosting an …
09-03-2022 Cairo, Geneva (ICRC) – Egyptian Minister of Justice Omar Marwan and President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer signed on Monday a memorandum of …
International humanitarian law (IHL) affords protection to people and property in armed conflict, but only if its rules are properly recognized, clearly understood and fully complied with. The first …
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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.
