ICRC operations continued apace throughout the first quarter of 2016, despite an upsurge in the fighting, torrential rain and earthquakes. Often working with Afghan Red Crescent staff and volunteers, …
In 2015, the ICRC Pretoria Regional Delegation assisted National Red Cross Societies to provide vulnerable migrants with a phone service enabling them to establish and maintain contact with their …
The Beddawi camp for Palestinian refugees in northern Lebanon is one of the country's largest, with a population of 30,000, and the war in Syria has brought a surge in numbers. The area is one of …
18-04-2016 Geneva/Bamako (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confirms that it has had no contact since Saturday with three of its staff members who were on assignment in …
Children are among those who have sought refuge from the on-going armed violence These children have been living with their mothers in a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Yola, Adamawa …
Students from across the Asia Pacific region recently competed in the 14th international humanitarian law moot court competition, held in Hong Kong. The 24 teams comprised 72 students from 21 …
20-04-2016 Sarajevo (ICRC/Red Cross Society of Bosnia and Herzegovina) – The annual European Restoring Family Links conference started today in Sarajevo. The International Federation of Red Cross and …
20-04-2016 Geneva (ICRC) – The body of an Armenian soldier was returned today in an operation carried out under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The handover took …
Damascus/Geneva - More than 120,000 people, in the besieged town of Al Rastan, near Homs have begun receiving food, medical aid and items for the provision of clean water. The aid was delivered by …
The ICRC in Kampala has successfully handed over ten minor children to the ICRC delegation in the DRC at Bunagana point on the Uganda-DRC border for reunification with their families. The children, …
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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.
