07-02-2017 Port Moresby (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross carried out its first distribution of relief items in Enga Province last week, providing essential tools to hundreds of …
Cairo (ICRC), 7 February 2017 – Catherine Gendre, Head of Cairo Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and Moamena Kamel, Secretary General of the Egyptian Red Crescent …
08-02-2017 Geneva / Kabul (ICRC) – Six staff members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have been shot and killed in Afghanistan. Two staff members are unaccounted for. The team, …
Before a distribution can take place, everything must be unloaded on site. Local volunteers gave invaluable help to the Red Cross team. CC BY-NC-ND / ICRC / James Daniel Waites “They fought all the …
Moscow (ICRC / MIA Rossiya Segodnya) – The world's biggest independent humanitarian organization, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), will be partnering with the Andrei Stenin …
Armed conflicts have given rise to countless stories that have inspired the arts world. In this article, the ICRC delegation in Colombia presents ten films and television series that have been seen …
This article aims to take stock, for the first time, of efforts specifically directed to generating respect for IHL, and in particular through the dissemination of IHL (i.e. spreading information, …
10-02-2017 Geneva / Sana'a – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is warning that the situation for thousands of civilians in Yemen is deteriorating fast, following a dramatic increase …
Central and East Africa is home to the ICRC's second biggest operation in South Sudan. Africa as a whole accounts for 40% of the ICRC's field budget and Central and East Africa is home to four of the …
Over 3 million people have been displaced in Iraq . We are providing assistance throughout the country with the delivery of food and other emergency items. This video shows two recent distributions …
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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.
