Every year, hundreds of people leave their home communities in Mexico and Central America to embark on an uncertain journey in search of a better future. To help make them less vulnerable, the ICRC …
Since 2013 hundreds of thousands of families have been torn apart by the conflict. The South Sudan Red Cross and the ICRC are helping them to reconnect with their relatives. To date, more than …
Liep Wan Loang, 35 years old, from Akobo Liep was calling his wife, whom he hadn’t seen or spoken to since December 2013. He wanted to know how she was and to ask about his children. Liep wanted to …
Thousands of migrants have been arriving every day in Slovenia, the smallest of the countries on the “Balkan transit route” from Greece. As they line up for registration and assistance, many are …
At La 72 , a refuge for migrants in Tenosique, Tabasco, in the south-east of Mexico , Flaquita is in charge of the kitchen team. She is gradually and willingly taking on more responsibilities in …
Statement Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction, …
21-12-2015 Kuwait (ICRC) – Today the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer, concluded his visit to Riyadh, where he met with the Supervisor-General of the …
Several hundred people who had returned home following earlier violence were forced to flee again when violence in the capital Bangui restarted at the end of September. Most went back to the …
ICRC law and policy director Helen Durham explains how States and regional bodies committed themselves to dealing with this "hidden" issue at the 32nd International Conference of the Red Cross and …
This is the ICRC's third sustainable development annual report. It provides an update on progress made in 2014 on the organization's Framework for Sustainable Development, which was adopted in 2011. …
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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.
