This bulletin contains an overview of our operations focusing on COVID-19 and other activities during the first half of the year 2021. In 2021, the ICRC Nairobi delegation continued with its …
What does it mean to live through a crisis in the digital age? The Digital Dilemmas experience is a multi-media initiative developed by the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement. Its objective is to …
Open to Palestinian journalists working in print and online media. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), an independent humanitarian organization working to protect and assist victims …
In the heart of the Lake Chad basin, a region racked by a conflict that has already lasted seven years, stands Mada Hospital, the only one for miles around whose surgeons can perform war surgery. …
Health care services are critical for expectant mothers and nursing mothers. Access to health facilities has remained a challenge for people affected by armed conflict, particularly for displaced …
Statement The ICRC recommends that states adopt new, legally binding rules to regulate autonomous weapon systems to ensure that sufficient human control and judgement is retained in the use of force. …
Some families have created their own coping mechanisms to deal with the disappearance of their loved ones and to move forward despite the pain. Psychosocial support and psychological care are …
The Health Care in Danger (HCiD) unit of the International Committee of the Red Cross and two leading medical universities of Pakistan, Khyber Medical University and Jinnah Sindh Medical University , …
During the second quarter of 2021, the International Committee of the Red Cross in Venezuela continued to focus its efforts on providing a humanitarian response tailored to addressing the most urgent …
30-07-2021 Gaza (ICRC) – A new study by the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza shows that 80% of Gaza’s population live much of their lives in the dark, with only 10-12 hours of …
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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.
