By drawing the attention of States and the public to the unacceptable effects of certain weapons on combatants and civilians, the ICRC has helped to create the conditions for the development of the …
19-03-2024 The International Committee of the Red Cross and the government of Romania signed today a headquarters agreement in Bucharest. The ICRC has been present in Romania since the escalation of …
The ICRC’s Project Management Framework (PMF) sets out the organization’s guidelines on managing projects and on the governance of the portfolio of projects managed at headquarters. The PMF describes …
Maputo (ICRC) - We help people affected by the armed conflict in northern Mozambique, where more than 670,000 people were internally displaced as of the end of the year and humanitarian needs remain …
The ICRC’s Digital Health Framework provides a clear and structured understanding of the ICRC’s digital health goals and intended outputs, outcomes, and impact through 2024 and beyond. This document …
Speech given by Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, at the European Humanitarian Forum – 18 March 2024 Commissioner, Ministers, Excellencies, colleagues, …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of …
15-03-2024 Statement by Patrick Youssef, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Regional Director for Africa, following his visit to Burkina Faso Ouagadougou (ICRC) – During my visit to …
14-03-2024 ICRC Geneva - The 19th meeting of the Coordination Mechanism seeking to clarify the fate and whereabouts of people missing in relation to the armed conflicts of the 1990s and August 2008 …
Beijing (ICRC) – On March 9, 2024, the 22nd Red Cross International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Moot Court Competition for the Asia-Pacific Region, jointly organized by the International Committee of the …
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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.
