28-10-2021 News release from the Haitian National Red Cross Society, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies regarding …
28-10-2021 Ahead of COP26 the Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Robert Mardini, has issued a statement following a visit to Mali. Bamako/Geneva (ICRC) – Climate change …
On the occasion of the 4th International Conference on the Safe Schools Declaration, which took place from 25 to 27 October 2021 in Abuja, Nigeria, ICRC President Peter Maurer delivered the …
In Nigeria there are at least 800 women dying in every 100,000 live births. The situation is worse in the conflict-affected North East region where, according to the World Health Organization , over …
Statement The President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer, called on parties to the conflict to show humanity as fighting intensifies in northern Ethiopia, …
What risks do humanitarians face in cyberspace? What are the strategic implications of working in cyberspace? What steps can they take to mitigate these risks? Building on the eighth Digital Dilemmas …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) organized the national rounds of the Henry Dunant Moot Court Competition on international humanitarian law (IHL) from 21 to 23 September 2021. …
Despite the pandemic and other setbacks, the doors of the Guillermina Rickel nursery school remain open to its young pupils. Waiting to greet them is Tamara Cárdenas, an employee at the school, and …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) condemns today's violent behaviour against our staff in the West Bank. ICRC staff were attacked with pepper spray by Israeli settlers during a …
For Palestinians, the olive harvest is not only an agricultural season but rather a tradition that their ancestors have kept for decades. During the olive harvest season, Palestinian families gather …
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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.
