Her Majesty Norodom Monineath, the Queen Mother, and her late husband, King Sihanouk, have long supported the more vulnerable people in Cambodia, including the disabled. They had been particularly …
07-05-2016 Kinshasa (ICRC) – Three staff members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) who were abducted in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), have been released. They were …
08-05-2016 On the occasion of World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day, the heads of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) stand together to reaffirm …
Speech given by Peter Maurer, p resident of the International Committee of the Red Cross, at a Novartis lecture in Basel, Switzerland. A World in disarray: Conflict and migration from a humanitarian …
09-05-2016 The 2016 Young Humanitarian Writers Competition was launched today in conjunction with World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day, celebrated on 8 May each year. The competition is in its second …
Calling all writers – professional or just passionate about writing. Here's your chance to showcase your humanitarian writing. If you're between 16 and 30 and passionate about humanitarian issues, …
It is 5 P.M. on a windy spring afternoon in Jerusalem. Despite the drastic drop in temperatures, in the East side of the city, more than 250 people headed to the Palestinian National Theatre to …
The Annual Report 2015 is an account of the field activities the ICRC has conducted worldwide. Activities are part of the organization's mandate to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war, …
Combatants may find themselves in unexpected situations in which they need guidance on how to comply with international humanitarian law or how to deal with casualties in need of care. This …
Fear and anxiety. They are emotions that a teenager, a blind man and two brothers in Nigeria had in common after outbreaks of violence forced them to flee so quickly they lost track of their family. …
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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.
