As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, states are facing an unprecedented public health challenge, which has forced them to adopt stringent measures. Against this backdrop, the management of migratory …
04-10-2020 Geneva (ICRC) – As the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict escalates, a surge in attacks using heavy explosive weaponry on populated areas is taking a deadly toll on civilians, the International …
General archives The ICRC's general archives are composed of operational, diplomatic and institutional files that differentiate them from the so-called "Agency" archives, which contain individual and …
Statement to United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting to Commemorate and Promote the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons Delivered by Mr. Peter Maurer, President, …
02-10-2020 Geneva (ICRC) – As the recent escalation of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict worsens, civilians are bearing the brunt of the surge in violence, the International Committee of the Red Cross …
In Egypt, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) assists people affected by conflict and violence including from the broader region, promotes international humanitarian law (IHL), and …
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 …
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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.
