Neutral, impartial independent humanitarian action - otherwise known as NIIHA – is a key approach that allows the ICRC to help conflict-affected communities in some of the most extreme environments …
Conflict and armed clashes across the DRC have forced more than 3 million people to flee their homes. Becoming separated from their families is an especially traumatic experience for children. …
Achievements and Challenges The ICRC Brussels delegation and the College of Europe have jointly organized the Bruges Colloquium on International Humanitarian Law every year since 2000 as part of …
Working together to strengthen humanitarian response An idea born in Switzerland over 150 years ago today brings more than 17 million people worldwide together for a single, powerful cause: to help …
New York (ICRC) – On arrival to New York for the United Nations General Assembly, ICRC President Peter Maurer said: "This General Assembly meets at a critical moment, when the world is faced with …
17-09-2017 Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) deplores the civilian casualties that resulted from an apparent shelling on residential areas in Shab Al Doubba and Souk …
Located at the far northern end of Sumatra, the Indonesian province of Aceh is a region steeped in Islamic tradition and home to a number of prestigious Islamic universities and institutions. Over a …
Isolation and dependence makes people deprived of their liberty extremely vulnerable. At the same time, in most countries, prisons are rarely a priority and financial resources allocated to them are …
Since 2010, the ICRC has been conducting humanitarian work regarding missing people and their family members in Georgia. Up to 2,500 people are still unaccounted for due to the armed conflicts in the …
Rural Damascus, Madaya. A joint ICRC, UN, Syrian Arab Red Crescent aid convoy entering Madaya. Photo: KRZYSIEK, Pawel/ICRC Post your questions on Twitter via #HumanitarianAccess On 18 September …
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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.
