22-08-2021 Cairo (ICRC / ERC) – The Egyptian Red Crescent Society (ERCS), in cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), has started distributing 335 tons of food aid, 19 …
Dili, Timor-Leste – Timor-Leste is currently facing a surge of COVID-19 cases in different districts. In supporting the government's effort to fight COVID-19, the International Committee of the Red …
Statement During the recent unrest in parts of South Africa, dozens of medical facilities were destroyed, pharmacies looted, and countless vaccines and other critical medicines were stolen. As a …
It is the middle of a bad season in northern Mali, an area facing a devastating humanitarian crisis compounded by climate change and conflict. During seasons like this, herders used to travel with …
In the first half of 2021, the ICRC offices in Baku and Barda continued its activities to deliver effective humanitarian response in relation to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict . During the first six …
One of the greatest challenges Palestinians face in the occupied Palestinian territories is climate change. Several climate-change trends are expected to intensify throughout the West Bank in the …
17-08-2021 The ICRC is relieved to see Kabul avoid what could have been devastating urban warfare, but we remain mindful of the thousands of civilians wounded and displaced in recent fighting in …
Facts and figures: January to June 2021 In the first half of 2021, the ICRC's humanitarian activities mainly focused on responding to the humanitarian crisis caused by the fighting in northern …
16-08-2021 Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has begun a second phase of forensic work to identify Argentine soldiers buried on the Falklands Islands (Malvinas). The …
16-08-2021 Port Moresby (ICRC) – The ICRC detention team participated in a conference organised by PNG Correctional Services (CS), this week 16 – 20 August in Port Moresby. The conference brought …
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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.
