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 …
15-02-2021 Today ICRC President Peter Maurer finalised his official visit to Mozambique by meeting with the President of the Republic of Mozambique, H.E. Felipe Jacinto Nyusi. To help respond to the …
In Brazil, urban violence has heavily affected communities' access to essential public services, such as education , healthcare and social welfare. The effects of a rapid and unregulated urban sprawl …
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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.
