The second executive course on humanitarian affairs of the International Academy of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IARC) was launched on 16 October in Soochow University, China. Pierre Krähenbühl, …
For more than six years, the Yasynskys have lived off the flowers grown a mere few hundred meters from the front line. The science of flower farming had to be mastered from scratch in extreme …
In June 2020, a few months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement jointly called on governments, the private sector, international …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is pleased to invite students from the universities of Bangladesh to register for the 12th Henry Dunant Memorial Moot Court Competition , …
28-10-2021 News release from the Haitian National Red Cross Society, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies regarding …
28-10-2021 Ahead of COP26 the Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Robert Mardini, has issued a statement following a visit to Mali. Bamako/Geneva (ICRC) – Climate change …
On the occasion of the 4th International Conference on the Safe Schools Declaration, which took place from 25 to 27 October 2021 in Abuja, Nigeria, ICRC President Peter Maurer delivered the …
In Nigeria there are at least 800 women dying in every 100,000 live births. The situation is worse in the conflict-affected North East region where, according to the World Health Organization , over …
The President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer, called on parties to the conflict to show humanity as fighting intensifies in northern Ethiopia, deepening the …
What risks do humanitarians face in cyberspace? What are the strategic implications of working in cyberspace? What steps can they take to mitigate these risks? Building on the eighth Digital Dilemmas …
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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.
