This report lays out the extensive discussions and conclusions of a workshop co-organized in Madrid, Spain, in November 2019 by the ICRC, the Spanish Red Cross, the Organización Médica Colegial and …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is delighted to announce the 2020 edition of its annual photo competition. This year, we seek to shed light on how COVID-19 has changed the lives …
A number of reports in the past few years have shed light on the danger which have come upon Afghanistan's healthcare system. Doctors, nurses and even patients have sadly been the subject of attacks …
02-11-2020 Juba (ICRC) – Months of conflict followed by torrential rains have created a deepening humanitarian crisis in which communities now face a heightened risk of hunger, malnutrition and …
The ICRC is engaged in the construction of a water supply project aimed at helping people affected by inter-communal violence in Yaso town and its environs in Benishagul Gumuz region to get access to …
This publication presents case studies of initiatives taken to safeguard the delivery of health care in Iraq, Lebanon and the Philippines. Each initiative was designed to prevent or minimize the …
Media outlets with journalists on dangerous assignments who need urgent humanitarian assistance -- media members who have been detained, are missing or who have been injured, for example -- can call …
30-10-2020 Khartoum (ICRC) – Clashes, climate shocks and COVID-19 are driving more Sudanese into poverty and threatening the health and well-being of hundreds of thousands of people who were already …
29-10-2020 Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has facilitated the handover of bodies of combatants killed in action during the recent escalation of the …
Dhaka (ICRC/BDRCS) — The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in collaboration with the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS), has been carrying out an intensive infection prevention …
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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.
