Missing Persons Cyprus Report
This report lays out the extensive discussions and conclusions of a workshop co-organised in Cyprus in October 2019 by the ICRC and the Commission on Missing Persons in Cyprus. It contains …
This report lays out the extensive discussions and conclusions of a workshop co-organised in Cyprus in October 2019 by the ICRC and the Commission on Missing Persons in Cyprus. It contains …
Humanity in Action provides an at-a-glance guide to how we helped and protected victims of armed conflict and other violence in 2019. It provides facts and figures on our programmes around the world …
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) represent an increasing global challenge. A majority of NCD-related deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries, where numerous humanitarian crises are currently …
Access to physical rehabilitation services is essential for ensuring that people with physical disabilities participate fully in society. Regaining mobility is an important step towards having the …
A peer-based intervention is a consultative and participatory process in which a group of people selected from a specific population – in this case, people deprived of their liberty – express their …
As TV channels flashed news announcing a nationwide lockdown to control the spread of COVID-19 cases in Pakistan, a sense of fear came upon Shahbaz Khan Mughal. "It was not fear of the novel …
Statement on agenda item "Norms, rules, and principles" within the open-ended working group on developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security …
Statement to UN Security Council Open Debate: Pandemics and Security Conflict zones are the sharp end of pandemics. Communities are already living on a knife edge where additional shocks can be …
The ICRC in Cairo and Rabat, along with the League of the Arab States and the National Committee on IHL in the Kingdom of Morocco, is co-organizing a panel discussion on the occasion of launching the …
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 …
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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.