In 2011, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and a team of renowned experts embarked on a major project: updating the Commentaries on the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their …
On 1 July, the jury awarded the Humanitarian Visa d'Or to Alfredo Bosco, an Italian freelance photojournalist working with the Milanese Luz agency. Alfredo Bosco's report, entitled Forgotten …
Confidentiality in communications with affected populations, other humanitarian partners, parties to a conflict and other interlocutors is essential to carry out humanitarian operations. Breaches of …
There are important considerations that must be taken into account when managing and handling of the deceased when they have died of COVID-19. Families and communities should take precautions when …
The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, known informally as the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, …
Response to public health emergencies requires changes in regular behavioural patterns. Encouraging these changes requires coordination and an understanding of the culture and communities affected. …
02-07-2020 Ouagadougou (ICRC) – For several months now, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been concerned by the lack of compliance with international humanitarian law in Burkina …
Statement The continued wave of Black Lives Matter and other anti-racism protests, across the United States and beyond, has put a spotlight firmly on deeply ingrained historic and systemic racist …
Please join us online on Wednesday 1 July at 15:00 hrs Geneva (14:00 hrs UK) to hear the findings of our recent review which identifies existing measures to address violence against health care and, …
The report Clarifying the fate and whereabouts of missing migrants: Exchanging information along migratory routes lays out the extensive discussions and conclusions of a workshop co-organised in …
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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.
