09-03-2021 The Regional Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross believes that the pandemic poses an additional challenge to populations that have been impacted by violence and …
09-03-2021 Bangui – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has sent an aid convoy from Cameroon to the Central African Republic (CAR) with 135 tonnes of food – enough to feed almost …
As the world faces more frequent and intense crises - driven in part by climate change, political and social conflict, cyber-attacks, and disease outbreak - humanitarians are working to protect …
Aya Hajajreh & Her Mother – COVID-19 Nurse Aya Hajajreh, 28, is a nurse in the COVID-19 ward in Al-Maqassed Hospital in Jerusalem. During the peak of the pandemic, Aya, six-months pregnant, insisted …
Call for comments The ICRC Missing Persons Project, launched in 2018, is currently developing a set of guiding principles on interaction with families of missing migrants. We invite all interested …
This year, in celebration of International Women's Day, we asked some of our incredible colleagues to share their wisdom and experience with us: " What advice would you give to your younger self? " …
06-03-2021 Today, under the umbrella of the Tripartite Commission nine human remains including a Saudi citizen, among the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia missing persons list, gone missing during the …
The search for ways to improve our collective response has led the World Bank, UNICEF and the ICRC to publish a new report today called, “Joining Forces to Combat Protracted Crises: Humanitarian and …
05-03-2021 Ouagadougou (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is alarmed that acts of armed violence in Burkina Faso continue to target civilians, the sick, health-care workers …
The ICRC’s head of operations in Ethiopia, Jeremy England, sets out his main humanitarian concerns about the situation in northern Ethiopia and calls on all parties to protect civilians. It's the …
Try one of the following resources:
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.
