For one entire week, English and French-speaking students have gathered in Bredene (Belgium) to "take the law out off the books" and compete in the 42nd and 43rd editions of the Concours Pictet, one …
The Brussels Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) recently organized a workshop on International Humanitarian Law (IH) for Belgian journalists. In today's world, …
Join us in a captivating journey with a solar lamp personified as a boy, from its birth in China, through distribution across the globe, and to its destination in communities worldwide, bringing …
Statement Statement by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), delivered by Tilman Rodenhauser, Legal Advisor, at the 7th substantive meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group on security …
Statement Statement by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), delivered by Veronique Christory, Senior Arms Advisor, at the open-ended intersessional informal consultative meeting on …
Advancing into 2024, we are thrilled to present a comprehensive overview of our significant accomplishments in 2023. Those accomplishments have been realized through our ongoing partnerships with key …
States must act now, to prohibit unpredictable autonomous weapons, and those designed or used to apply force against persons, and to impose clear and binding restrictions on the development and use …
Goma (ICRC) - A sharp uptick in the numbers of civilians wounded by heavy weapons in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is threatening to overwhelm health facilities already struggling to …
Statement Statement by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), delivered by Veronique Christory, Senior Arms Advisor, on the Existing and Potential Threats in the Sphere of Information …
The Mikayilov family in Azerbaijan waited over 30 years to hear news of their missing loved one, Baba Mikayilov, who went missing in 1992 during the Karabakh war. One of nine children, Baba had …
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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.
