As fighting in pockets of Ethiopia's Tigray region continues and food supplies dwindle, local farmers not only lack seeds and fertilizer ahead of the planting season but fear runs high. Access our …
Kathmandu: The Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS) recently organized disability screening camps in the remote areas of two districts in mid-western Nepal – Lamjung and Tanahun. The camps ran over five …
28-05-2021 Fearing another eruption of the Nyiragongo volcano in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), thousands of people are fleeing the city of Goma and its surroundings. The …
27-05-2021 Geneva/Addis-Ababa/Khartoum (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is asking donors for an additional 28 million Swiss francs ($31.3 million) for its operations in …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) supports the economic security of individuals, households and communities affected by armed conflict; it does so by helping them to cover their …
The ICRC came alongside families who lost loved ones in the San Miguel del Ene attack on May 23 to offer support. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Peru regularly visits the …
Statement HL Side Event on Protection of Health Care: Speech given by Mr Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Colleagues, Today we are here to reflect on and …
The ICRC report on "Avoiding Civilian Harm from Military Cyber Operations during Armed Conflicts" is now available. In today's armed conflicts, cyber operations are increasingly used in support of …
Families of missing persons are still yearning for their loved ones, four years after the Marawi conflict. Nanay Rosa’s regular day starts grinding as early as 3 am. From her house in an Iligan City …
Statement Security Council open debate, protection of civilians in armed conflict: Speech given by Mr Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Chair, excellencies. …
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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.
