This report covers the activities of The Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement in Ukraine since the onset of the international conflict in February 2022 until June 2023. Download the latest Movement …
State representatives from 15 countries of Northeast, Southeast Asia and the Pacific region gather to take stock of modern challenges and find ways to enhance the respect and implementation of …
Key Facts and Figures 07 October – 06 November 2023 One month on, civilians pay the heavy price of intense violence Renewed hostilities in Israel and Gaza –unprecedented in scale and intensity– …
November 7th marked one month since the first of a series of three earthquakes - with a magnitude of 6.3 - and multiple aftershocks, jolted the western Afghan province of Herat. The earthquakes were …
According to international humanitarian law (IHL), health establishments and units, including hospitals, should not be attacked. This protection extends to the wounded and sick as well as to medical …
The Florence Nightingale Medal is awarded to nurses who display exceptional courage and devotion to victims of armed conflict or natural disaster or to those who display exemplary service in the …
Libya continues to grapple with the consequences of the conflict, which have had a considerable impact on the country's basic infrastructure, including healthcare, education, water, and sanitation. …
An eleven-year partnership with the Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania (CCBRT) Hospital and the ICRC came to a successful and sustainable closure by end 2022. The ICRC's …
27-10-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – A war surgery team and a weapon contamination specialist are among ten International Committee of the Red Cross experts who arrived in Gaza on Friday, entering alongside …
This is a summary of the final report of the evaluation of the Support Relationships in Armed Conflicts Initiative (SRI), a five-year strategy (2019-2023) aimed at broadening the ICRC's engagement …
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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.
