Theme: Enhancing implementation of IHL in Ethiopia: Achievements, challenges, and way forward The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a neutral, impartial and independent humanitarian …
17-04-2020 Geneva / Kiev (ICRC) – Even as preventive measures are being implemented to contain the spread of COVID-19 , an increase in hostilities is making life more difficult for residents along …
ICRC, Kyiv – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has participated today in an operation of simultaneous transfer and release of detainees with the main aim to confirm through a …
In this period of uncertainty and unpredictability, the Red Cross staff and volunteers across the world have been on the frontlines to save lives of people affected by the unprecedented pandemic. The …
16-04-2020 Conflict-hit countries need urgent support to stem the spread of COVID-19 and prepare for a potentially devastating aftermath, the International Committee of the Red Cross’ Near and Middle …
More than 20 years ago, Hamida Hassan helped to deliver Fowziya as a traditional birth attendant. With her bare hands and no medical equipment, Hamida received Fowziya into the world, wrapped her in …
Photojournalism Award Created in 2011 and endowed with 8,000 euros, the ICRC Humanitarian Visa d'or Award is awarded each year to a professional photojournalist who has covered a humanitarian issue …
14-04-2020 Nairobi (ICRC) - As the world battles COVID-19 , farmers in East Africa are facing another devastating outbreak: swarms of desert locusts. The International Committee of the Red Cross …
Kuala Lumpur – Taking swift action to protect prison populations from exposure to novel coronavirus disease ( COVID-19 ), the Malaysian authorities have stopped pronouncing custodial sentences as …
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a dramatic new threat to the entire population of the world. But it does not have to be catastrophic for people already struggling with war and violence. We, at …
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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.
