While jail visits remain on hold during the COVID-19 pandemic, detainees and their loved ones maintain contact through video calls. On the 14th of February 2021, Rafael sent his wife Kim a chocolate …
ICRC President's address to the Human Rights Council. President, esteemed colleagues A year ago, when this Council met, the COVID-19 pandemic was unfolding across the globe. Leaders proclaimed 'we …
20-02-2021 Bangui (ICRC) – On 15 and 16 February, violent clashes between state armed forces and armed groups broke out in the town of Bambari. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) …
As part of the webinar series on the Interface between Buddhism and International Humanitarian Law (IHL) , the Transnational Network of Theravada Studies in collaboration with Shan State Buddhist …
Across Africa’s Sahel region people are enduring ever-increasing levels of violence. While conflict dominates headlines, climate change adds a second pernicious dimension to the mix. Lemba Bisimwa, …
A snapshot of ICRC response in the Philippines in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major health and economic challenges for millions of Filipinos in the last year, but the effects were …
17-02-2021 “Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, conflicts across the world have continued to rage while new armed confrontations have flared. More than 160 million people live in fragile and …
How is digitalization impacting humanitarian assistance? What collaborations and partnerships does this require? And how do these programmes (and the data they generate) interact with existing social …
Nasiriyah, 1991 An ICRC nurse is taking care of the newborn babies. Baghdad, 1991 Distribution of drinking water to the civilian population in Husseiniyeh suburb. Penjwin, 1992 ICRC convoy carrying …
16-02-2021 CAIRO (ICRC): The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has donated essential personal protective equipment (PPE) and medical supplies, worth 1.5 million Egyptian Pounds, to the …
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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.
