An ICRC staff member discusses with a group of detainees with the aim of assessing living conditions in the prison. The ICRC's detention work seeks to ensure those detained receive humane and …
Since the beginning of this year, 2,860 migrants are thought to have died in the Mediterranean after setting off in smugglers' boats from the Libyan coast towards Italy. Volunteers from the Libyan …
Between 2012 and 2015, the ICRC undertook a major consultation process on how to strengthen legal protection for victims of armed conflict. This involves two tracks of work, one regarding detention …
Ukraine and Afghanistan. Humanitarian law and the protection of civilians in wartime. Vital topics for both the ICRC and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and good reason for senior …
Statement In the last few months, a number of attacks against health-care workers, medical transports and facilities have taken place in several countries, like Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen to …
For the past two and half years, Ángel Medina Bejarano has been trying to trace people who have gone missing in Colombia's armed conflict. He knows from experience that the process of recovering …
Then... 1955 : The ICRC begins working in Algeria. It focuses its efforts on prisoners and displaced people. 40,000 Algerian refugees are helped by the ICRC and National Red Crescent Societies …
The event will be livestreamed from this page on 4 November The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Centre for Military and Security Law (CMSL) at the Australian National …
05-11-2015 Manila (ICRC) – A community-based water-supply system providing potable water to over 4,000 people, including displaced families, was officially inaugurated today in Barangay Taluksangay, …
As the number of migrants who lose their lives trying to reach Europe continues to rise, experts say work to identify and manage the bodies of the dead is falling far behind and call for an urgent …
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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.
