In the town of Kikwit, in the western province of Kwilu in the Democratic Republic of Congo, more than 12,000 people are in an alarming humanitarian situation. These people, most of them women and …
To commemorate the International Day of the Disappeared, we brought together a storyteller and several families of missing people. The storyteller shared stories of the missing people in a market …
On 8 September, Lukudu Kennedy Laki Emmanuel, was killed in the line of duty in South Sudan. Kennedy, a truck driver at the ICRC, was out delivering essential goods when the convoy of trucks came …
ICRC calls on parties to armed conflict to protect civilians, including youth The delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to the African Union (AU) took part to the …
This information kit deals with the following issues: Penal repression: punishing war crimes; Obligations in terms of penal repression; General principles of international criminal law; Universal …
Post your questions on Twitter via #IHLinAction On 27 September 2017, the ICRC will convene a live-streamed panel of experts at the Humanitarium to discuss how to change the narrative on IHL, by …
Boris Michel, the ICRC's regional director for Asia and the Pacific, was in Sri Lanka recently for an annual seminar organized by the Ministry of Defence. The high-level seminar was attended by …
Rumbek Physical Rehabilitation Centre (PRC) was opened in 2004 by Medical Care Development International, which ended its project in 2010, handing it over to the Government. The ICRC has supported …
ICRC delegates are deployed all over the world to contribute to the organization's mandate and mission of ensuring humanitarian protection and assistance for victims of armed conflict and other …
On 30 August, a photo exhibition to mark the International Day of the Disappeared was organized in the City Assembly of Belgrade. The deeply moving exhibition featured personal belongings of people …
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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.
