The ICRC Colombo delegation together with the Bandaranaike International Diplomatic Training Institute of Sri Lanka (BIDTI) are co-organizing a series of webinars on Contemporary challenges to …
17-12-2020 Operational Update Juba (ICRC) – Massive flooding that residents say they haven't seen before has left hundreds of thousands of people displaced with little or no means to survive across …
It was supposed to be a celebratory night of singing, dancing and good food for the hardworking, young farmer Ahmadullah and his four friends as they drove to a wedding in their village in Zheray …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is working with religious leaders in Bangladesh to provide the population with health information to keep themselves, their family, and their …
The ICRC in collaboration with the International Association of Theravada Buddhist Universities (IATBU), the International Association of Buddhist Universities (IABU), Shan State Buddhist University, …
Massive flooding that residents say they haven’t seen before have left hundreds of thousands of people displaced with little or no means to survive across different parts of South Sudan. In the area …
The ICRC translates over 14 million words a year from and into Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, and many more languages. But what actually is translation? One of our in-house …
This poster introduces the Restoring Family Links (RFL) Code of Conduct on Data Protection and highlights key data protection principles which should be complied with when processing data within the …
It could be hard to imagine that such turquoise waters have ever witnessed a conflict between belligerents, destruction, or displacement of people. This is the Red Sea Coast in Zubab, Bab El Mandeb …
15-12-2020 One month after ceasefire deal, deep humanitarian needs persist One month after a ceasefire deal in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict came into effect, hundreds of thousands of people remain …
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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.
