Adherence to the 1980 convention on certain conventional weapons and its protocols. ADVISORY SERVICE ON INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW ____________________________________ 1980 Convention on Certain …
Humanity in Action provides an at-a-glance guide to how we helped and protected victims of armed conflict and other violence in 2020. It provides facts and figures on our programmes around the world …
Living with absence is a painful reality for family members of thousands of people who have disappeared. In Brazil, the ICRC has observed the disappearance of people as a current reality, which has …
06-07-2021 Muscat/Kuwait: 06 July 2021 – The President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer conducted a series of meetings with high-level officials in Oman on 06 July …
06-07-2021 Jerusalem – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is seriously concerned about the deteriorating health of Mr. Ghadanfar Abu-Atwan, a Palestinian administratively detained …
Visiting Palestinian detainees in Israeli detention facilities is a key part of our work, including follow-up of detainees who turn to hunger strikes to protest their detention or conditions of …
This position paper introduces the approach taken by the ICRC for humanitarian engagement with non-state armed groups. Humanitarian engagement with armed groups, including non-state armed groups …
05-07-2021 Juba (ICRC) – The people of South Sudan have been battered by the ravages of conflict and armed violence during most of the first decade of the state’s existence. Underscoring the scale of …
Fact and Figures Cycles of conflict and armed violence have repeatedly displaced families and reduced their ability to meet their daily needs. This has created long-term needs for humanitarian …
Proper and dignified management of the dead is an essential aspect of dealing with emergencies and humanitarian crises such as the ongoing pandemic . Not only does it preserve the dignity of 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.
