The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Bangladesh continues to work with the Prisons Directorate to strengthen and consolidate the support to prisons in view of COVID-19 . As part of …
Concerned for the conflict-affected communities, ICRC and the Myanmar Red Cross are monitoring the situation and reinforcing humanitarian and COVID-19 response in Rakhine State, Myanmar. Since …
The COVID-19 pandemic has further destabilized public health systems already weakened by war and natural disasters in Yemen , Syria , Iraq , Gaza , Occupied Palestinian Territories and other …
As millions of people around the world face a new reality, for some people, their previous reality was already a high-risk one – and COVID-19 just raised the stakes. Eurasia is the backdrop to …
The first half of the year 2020 was consumed by the widespread shock and disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic and its attendant restrictions. What began as a global public health emergency …
Statement ICRC statement to Informal Virtual Meeting of the United Nations Open-ended working group on developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international …
On 28 September 2020, as part of the 75th United Nations General Assembly, the United Arab Emirates, Norway, and Somalia, in cooperation with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United …
An ICRC delegate from Murroe, Co. Limerick, describes her role working in Erbil. Rieke Grainne Hayes is a physiotherapy team leader in the ICRC-run Erbil Physical Rehabilitation Centre in the Iraqi …
The ICRC joined hands with the Pakistan Red Crescent Society's (PRCS) Muhafiz Force volunteers to spread awareness regarding preventive measures against COVID-19 The rapid spread and unprecedented …
This report lays out the extensive discussions and conclusions of a workshop co-organized in Cyprus in October 2019 by the ICRC and the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus. It contains …
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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.
