20-11-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) traveled to Qatar on Monday to advance humanitarian issues related to the armed conflict in Israel and …
16-11-2023 Nairobi (ICRC) – Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced in recent weeks as floods continue to ravage towns in Somalia. Dozens of people have already been rescued by the Somali …
In situations of armed conflict and other violence, disasters, and migration, people go missing. Families are separated, and dead bodies may never be identified and returned home. The effects of this …
In an era marked by evolving security concerns and numerous possibilities for industrial accidents, the need for being able to treat victims exposed to Chemical, Biological, Radiological or Nuclear …
14-11-2023 Speech given at the United Nations Office at Geneva by François Moreillon, head of delegation for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the Democratic Republic of the …
To watch the city you love die is heart-breaking, yet this is a reality for many as wars are increasingly fought in urban areas. When wars are fought in cities, they devastate buildings and …
Ko Saw Chan Thar has always enjoyed creating beauty with his hands. He can draw, sculpt, make tattoos and give stylish haircuts. Though born with a physical deformity and facing many challenges, he …
Geneva (ICRC) – Mirjana Spoljaric, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, will meet again with families of hostages today at the ICRC’s headquarters in Geneva. President …
This is a summary of the final report of the evaluation on the National Society Development initiative in Yemen. The evaluation focuses on assessing to which extent NSD support had contributed to the …
It is not every day you find a 65-year-old student in high school. Allan Ekel from Mulitaka in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea, has an extraordinary story. Not only is he sharing a Grade 9 classroom …
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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.
