This pocket-sized booklet adopts a simple pictorial format and aims to raise awareness as to the duties, responsibilities and powers of police and security officials in their daily law-enforcement …
28-06-2016 Abuja (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are set to begin a four-day meeting on the implementation of …
Shafiq wanted to study in Europe. He has now disappeared, like thousands of other Afghan migrants on the Balkan route. Imagine how it must feel when your 15-year-old son calls you from Iran and asks …
29-06-2016 The jury of the sixth edition of the ICRC's Humanitarian Visa d'Or has unanimously awarded the photojournalism prize to Juan Arredondo for his work entitled "Born into conflict: child …
Around 85,000 people escaped Fallujah during the fierce fighting that recently took place. They sought safety in nearby camps, like in Amiriyat Al Fallujah. Among the people living there is Fawziya, …
Statement by Robert Mardini, ICRC Regional Director for the Near and Middle East, UNOG, 29-30 June Honorable representatives of the United Nations, of the State of Palestine and other Governments, …
Since 1993, the ICRC has been assisting the General Department of Prisons with the renovation of buildings and maintenance of electrical, water and sanitation systems – all with the aim of improving …
01-07-2016 Beirut (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross has begun collecting Biological Reference Samples (BRS) from the families of people who went missing during the Lebanese civil …
04-07-2016 Geneva (ICRC) - The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said that suffering in Syria and Iraq has reached 'unprecedented levels' and that many people, in …
July 2015 Work begins with the digging of the foundations. The local community provides the labour force. CC BY-NC-ND / ICRC / Habibullah Husseini August and September 2015 Construction proceeds …
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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.
