04-05-2016 Kinshasa – Three staff members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) were abducted on Tuesday morning in North Kivu Province, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They …
World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day 2016 Statement by Mr Tadateru Konoé, president of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and Mr Peter Maurer, president of the …
In April 2016, head of ICRC arms unit Kathleen Lawand was invited to London to give the keynote address at the annual meeting of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC) Summit, …
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 …
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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.
