ICRC (Tbilisi) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has chaired a meeting of the coordination mechanism for clarifying the fate and whereabouts of people who have been missing since …
03-03-2017 Baghdad (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) condemns in the strongest possible terms the use of chemical weapons during fighting around the Iraqi city of Mosul. …
05-03-2017 Khartoum/ Kampala/ Juba (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has facilitated the release and repatriation of 125 people detained by the Sudan People's Liberation …
Around 100 law students representing 24 teams from 21 cities/universities across the Asia Pacific region will participate in the annual Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Moot Court competition …
06-03-2017 Kismayo, Somalia (ICRC) - The number of severely malnourished children seeking urgent, life-saving treatment is on the rise at a nutritional centre in Somalia supported by the …
Beijing (ICRC) – Around 100 law students representing 24 teams from 21 cities/universities across the Asia Pacific region will participate in the annual Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Moot …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) first established a permanent presence in Mindanao in 1986 by opening a sub-delegation in Davao City. In 2008, the ICRC opened an office in …
Jessica holds Nyanene during a quiet moment as the girl’s mother snaps her fingers. Nyanene was hospitalized in Maiwut, South Sudan for a case of pneumonia exacerbated by malnutrition. CC BY-NC-ND / …
As a woman in Somalia, Halima Abdulle is well aware that leadership roles in her country have traditionally been reserved for men. But this reality didn't stop her from rising to the top of her …
Asmaa Al-Taib is a senior prosthetist and orthotist in South Darfur, Sudan. She is one of the few women working in her field at the ICRC-supported National Authority for Prosthetics and Orthotics. …
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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.
