How important is connectivity for people living through a crisis? How can connectivity support humanitarian operations? And what happens when connectivity fails - or is denied? To launch the fifth …
An outbreak of COVID-19 in a prison can be devastating for both the prison population and prison staff. This is especially true for overcrowded facilities where the health care system is …
The ICRC established the Support Relationships in Armed Conflict Initiative (SRI) in response to the scale of human suffering resulting from armed conflicts featuring the provision of external …
21-06-2021 Geneva, 22 June 2021 – The humanitarian sector has a key role to play in addressing the climate and environment crises that affect people’s lives and livelihoods around the world every …
A war surgeon based in South Sudan, Carina Gianserra has been working for three years at the ICRC treating patients wounded by conflict. Being a war surgeon in one of the organisation's most …
The humanitarian award aims to promote reporting on humanitarian issues in Jordanian media and through it, reward journalists who are putting people in the spotlight of their stories on humanitarian …
The ICRC works to eliminate sexual violence in armed conflict , detention and other situations of violence. We do so by engaging in high-level humanitarian diplomacy, addressing root causes and …
19-06-2021 Besides the vulnerability of those who work in essential services, campaign calls attention to violence, which had no truce and impacts many communities. Brasília (ICRC) – Brazil hit the …
The ICRC's humanitarian work in Venezuela is aimed at addressing the most urgent needs of communities affected by armed violence. Our work has not stopped in 2021: we've redoubled our efforts to help …
18-06-2021 Photojournalism award The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) awarded its Visa d'Or prize for humanitarian photojournalism to independent French photojournalist Antoine …
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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.
