On Friday January 29, more than 150 relatives of people who have gone #missing during the Lebanese war gathered for an... Posted by اللجنة الدولية للصليب الأحمر on Tuesday, February 2, …
Nearly 40 years after the conflict ended, landmines laid along the Zimbabwe's border with Mozambique continue to pose a threat to the lives and livelihoods of rural communities. Since 2012, the ICRC …
An exhibition of powerful photographs and films by award-winning British photographer and filmmaker Nick Danziger tells the stories of eleven women living in conflict zones during the first decade of …
The ICRC is working closely with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) to provide food, water, health care and other forms of relief assistance to Syrian people affected by the fighting in the country. …
Joint teams of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) have managed to deliver food and hygiene items for more than twelve thousand people in the …
Speech given by Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, at the Syria Pledging Conference 2016 in London. Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, When my colleagues …
Residents of Krasnohorivka in Ukraine's Donetsk region are rebuilding homes destroyed during shelling. The repair teams consist of skilled workers who have lost their jobs due to the conflict, and …
Written by Marianne Gasser, head of the ICRC delegation in Syria. It was 15 March, 2011. I took the usual short walk to my office, enjoying the cool breeze and soft glow of a beautiful spring …
On 5 February 2016, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) and the ICRC hosted the fifth workshop on data protection as part of good governance in international organisations at the ICRC …
In Lebanon, the ICRC's work includes visiting detainees and finding missing persons. We are helping displaced people fleeing war and violence across the region and the communities hosting them. The …
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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.
