High Level Syria Crisis Ministerial Event, United Nations General Assembly, 72nd session. Statement by the ICRC President, Peter Maurer. Throughout the long years of conflict in Syria, the ICRC has …
On 18 September 2017, the ICRC and the Humanitarian Policy Group ( HPG ) convened a live-streamed panel at the Humanitarium gathering humanitarian agencies and researchers to identify current …
On 18 May 1992, several weeks after fighting began in Bosnia-Herzegovina, an ICRC convoy entered Sarajevo with food and medicine. Led by the newly appointed head of delegation in Sarajevo, Frédéric …
21-09-2017 New York: At the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly, ICRC President Peter Maurer emphasized that conflict was at the root of the famines faced by communities in South …
21-09-2017 (New York) – At a UN General Assembly High-Level event on Syria, ICRC President Peter Maurer urged for the protection of Syrian civilians trapped by violence and internally displaced by …
High-level event on famine prevention and response, United Nations General Assembly, 72nd session. Statement by the ICRC President, Peter Maurer . This year we saw famine loom over our world as …
Coming from the urban sprawl and lively chaos of Bangkok, it was a six-month roller-coaster ride when I moved to Maban, South Sudan. As a field delegate for the International Committee of the Red …
High-Level Event on the Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen, United Nations General Assembly, 72nd session. Statement by the ICRC President, Peter Maurer Like others in this room, I was in Yemen just a few …
22-09-2017 New York – As suspected cholera cases in Yemen reached 700,000 in just five months, ICRC President Peter Maurer pressed national, regional, and international actors to respect the rules of …
This exhibition drew on video and audio recordings from the ICRC's archives dating as far back as 1922 to show the staggering toll that wars have taken on cities and the people living in them. But it …
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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.
