The 1989-1997 civil war in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea left as many as 20,000 dead. The fate and whereabouts of many who vanished following the outbreak of violence remain unknown. This causes …
28-08-2014 Khartoum/Geneva (ICRC) – Sudan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today signed a newly revised country agreement. The legal document …
In the region of Arsal, a town in north-east Lebanon on the border with Syria, Syrian refugees outnumber the local population. Now, fighting has broken out between the Lebanese armed forces and …
Jordan, Mafraq. A Syrian refugee is doing an Iris registration and scanning at a bank, in order to receive cash assistance provided by the ICRC./CC BY-NC-ND/ICRC/Z. Arabyat With no solution to the …
Since the outbreak of fighting in Al-Anbar region last December, the humanitarian situation in west and north Iraq has become extremely bad, particularly for displaced people. Minorities in …
The ICRC has pledged not to abandon the people of Libya despite the murder in Sirte on 4 June of Michael Greub, who headed our sub-delegation in Misrata. The ICRC's acting deputy director of …
The one-kilometre-long Scarf of Hope, commemorating missing persons in Peru, has for the first time been brought to Europe. Displayed wrapped around the ICRC headquarters building in Geneva, it marks …
This report, which covers the year of 2013, provides an update on the implementation of the Framework for Sustainable Development at the ICRC. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AT THE ICRC ANNUAL REPORT 2013 …
A collection of FAQs on matters related to detainees, detention and the ICRC Hunger strikes in prisons: The ICRC's position Why does the ICRC visit prisoners? Which prisoners does it visit? Why does …
UN Committee on the Rights of the Child Children and armed conflict (United Nations) UNICEF – UN Children’s Fund Child rights information Network (CRIN) Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers …
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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.
