This document provides guidance on the management, or handling, of the remains of people believed or confirmed to have died from coronavirus disease (COVID-19). It is meant to give a practical …
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (the Movement) has been actively working to meet the public health and humanitarian needs of the many communities around the world affected by …
The Convention on Cluster Munitions contains various measures and mechanisms for promoting its implementation and ensuring compliance with its provisions. Some of these may necessitate the adoption …
Internally displaced people and migrants, including refugees, living in camps, formal and informal settlements and other collective sites (hereafter camp and camp-like settings), may be …
This report summarizes discussions held at a workshop on the role of humanitarian actors in safeguarding access to education, which took place at the ICRC’s headquarters in Geneva from 19 to 20 June …
In terms of the number of nations involved, the duration of the conflict and the resources deployed, the First World War constituted a fundamental break with the past. It ushered in a century of …
The ICRC’s protection activities range from preventing and resolving cases of missing persons to ensuring that human remains are handled with dignity and supporting families during their sometimes …
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 …
During armed conflicts, natural disasters and other situations of violence, people go missing. Families wait for answers. The ICRC is the only organization that offers forensic assistance exclusively …
For the first time, the ICRC has explored the views of 16,000 millennials – those aged 20–35 – on conflict and the rules of war. The findings offer hope for the future as well as plenty of concern. …
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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.
