A practical leaflet based on the outcomes of a practitioners’ workshop the ICRC hosted in Zimbabwe in 2021. This workshop was aimed at sharing the administrative and legal procedures for families of …
The 'Explosive Weapons with Wide Area Effects: A Deadly Choice in Populated Areas' report calls for a change of mindset and provides a range of recommendations to prevent or mitigate the impact of …
Statement Speech given by Mr Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross. UN Security Council Open Debate. 25 January 2022 via video link. I commend Norway and the …
This strategy, together with the overarching Framework for Access to Education, outlines the definition and approach of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to access to education and …
24-01-2022 The International Committee of the Red Cross is deeply concerned about the intensification of violence in recent days around a detention facility in Sina’a, Hassakeh city, and calls for …
The promulgation of the Law on the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared Persons (or Law 105) in November 2018 marked a significant milestone for the families, authorities, and Lebanese society. In light …
Speech delivered by Chris Harland, ICRC legal adviser, on the occasion of the launch of the Study of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate on the i nterrelationship …
Text of Article 8 of the Statute of the International Criminal Court. Article 8 War crimes 1. The Court shall have jurisdiction in respect of war crimes in particular when committed as part of a plan …
Model instruments of ratification / accession. Model of an instrument of ratification [acceptance or approval] (for States that signed the Statute by 31.12.2000) WHEREAS the Rome Statute of the …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) believes that the use of toxic chemicals as weapons for law enforcement purposes should be limited exclusively to riot control agents, which have …
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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.
