ICRC Statement to the High-Level event on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) As-delivered by Laetitia Courtois, Permanent Observer to the UN and Head of Delegation, New York Good …
During clashes in May 2020, armed men burnt and destroyed houses in this village in Central Equatoria. Communities fled into the bush for safety. They lost all their belongings, livelihoods and …
Jerusalem – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is seriously concerned about the deteriorating health of Mr. Maher Al Akhras, a Palestinian administratively detained and hospitalized …
21-10-2020 Abuja (ICRC) – First responders seeking to assist the wounded must be allowed to do their work unimpeded in Nigeria’s ongoing protests, while live ammunition must be used only as a last …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Sanata Dharma University (SDU), Yogyakarta-Indonesia, and the Jesuit Conference of Asia-Pacific (JCAP) will launch a series of webinars on …
Statement to Ministerial Roundtable on Responding to Humanitarian Challenges in a Long-Term Perspective in the Central Sahel, 20 October 2020 As delivered by ICRC President Peter Maurer Excellencies, …
Statement to the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, First Committee: General debate on all disarmament and international security agenda items Delivered by Ms. Véronique Christory, …
By dawn, our teams were on the ground to kick start the two-day release operation to bring back home thousands of former detainees. Credit: Osama Alansi One of the former detainees prays while …
In August 2018, the ICRC launched a systematic study of restrictive detention regimes in Eurasia, as concerns were growing over the use and potential misuse of such regimes in criminal detention. The …
Since the onset of the pandemic, numerous guidelines, protocols, and policies have been formulated and widely shared to safely and professionally manage the dead in a dignified manner. But many …
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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.
