Helping to ensure that places of detention are clean and hygienic remains a priority for the ICRC who have been working in Zimbabwean prisons since 2009. In 2015, the ICRC introduced a chlorine …
In the rural areas of Pakistan, fodder cutting machines are used every day by farmers and their families for preparation of fodder for the livestock they own. But a simple act of preparing livestock …
During her time working for the ICRC in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Coline Rapneau had an experience that changed her life, and her opinion of how and why sexual violence should be spoken …
"I finally intervened and said: listen, if you want to kill us, you all have guns and you might as well kill us here." Read all stories on International Women's Day 2016 …
Considerable attention has focused recently on the destruction of historic monuments in many of the world's armed conflicts. What is however not so widely realized is that in the event of armed …
Joint News Release, International Committee of the Red Cross and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne Geneva (ICRC / EPFL) – The Humanitarian Tech Hub is an ambitious research and …
There is no longer any doubt about the importance of women's work for the ICRC, but it has not always been so. For decades women were either under-represented or relegated to particular tasks. An …
Students in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Viet Nam have been putting their IHL skills to the test in a series of moot court competitions, where they play the role of prosecution or defence in a war …
Although the fighting is abating between government forces and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People's Army (FARC-EP), the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) is continuing to …
A digital awareness campaign about the work of the ICRC has been unveiled at NATO's Maritime Command headquarters in London. The three-week project centred on the importance of respecting …
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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.
