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 …
28-10-2020 A statement from Martin Schüepp, International Committee of the Red Cross Eurasia Regional Director, in Geneva. "Alongside thousands of civilians, the ICRC witnessed intense shelling in …
The ICRC translates over 14 million words a year from and into Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, and many more. But what actually is translation? One of our in-house translators in …
During the COVID19 pandemic, caring for the dead and their families is at the heart of the ICRC’s response. The management of the dead process includes proper documentation and appropriate …
The future is looking better and brighter for Maung Myint*. Not only did he pass the matriculation exams with flying colours but was also granted early release from prison due to it. A resident of …
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact on the lives of Jaixina, Elizabeth, Jose, and Gisselle, who volunteer with the Venezuelan Red Cross. They all know that they could become infected with …
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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.
