Statement General debate on all disarmament and international security agenda items. United Nations, General Assembly, 70th session, First Committee, statement by the ICRC, New York, 15 October 2015. …
Widespread conflict continues to devastate the lives of thousands of people in cities and towns across Afghanistan. The ICRC is providing basic aid, such as clean water and medical care, to those …
United Nations, General Assembly, 70th session, Sixth Committee, item 86 of the agenda, statement by the ICRC, New York, October 2015. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) welcomes the …
Statement United Nations, General Assembly, 70th session, Third Committee, item 68 of the agenda, statement by the ICRC, New York, 15 October 2015. When a school is attacked, or when children's …
16-10-2015 Jerusalem/Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross is increasingly concerned by the deterioration in the situation in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory. …
Under what conditions will the ICRC visit detainees? What does an ICRC visit look like? Who is in the visiting team? What does the ICRC do to improve the situation of detainees? Under what conditions …
A selection of films illustrating various aspects of the ICRC's work with detainees Working for the ICRC: Detention delegate ICRC visits to detainees. The how, the what and the why. ICRC visits to …
Jerusalem/Geneva (ICRC): The International Committee of the Red Cross urges the Israeli government to immediately halt plans for the punitive destruction of six private homes in the West Bank. The …
The 11th edition of the seminar, organized by the ICRC and the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights , aimed to help lecturers teach and research contemporary IHL issues …
Jean Fiasse is a physiotherapist who is part of an ICRC surgical team in Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He is the last link in the hospital chain, but far from the least. With his …
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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.
