This report provides an update on the 2016 report ' Translating the Kampala Convention into Practice: A Stocktaking Exercise '. It aims to capitalize on the momentum for engagement created by the …
Facts & Figures The ICRC has been present in Ethiopia since the beginning of the 1977 Ethio-Somalia armed conflict. Our work has remained to address the humanitarian needs of the people affected by …
Over the last decades, tremendous advances have been made in ensuring that a minimum of humanity prevails in times of conflict, including on issues of internal displacement. In 2018, we saw the 20th …
The ICRC's Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, Christine Cipolla, was in Delhi to attend the Raisina Dialogue and meet a number of diplomats, academicians, humanitarian and development sector …
Statement Speech given by Peter Maurer, president of the ICRC, 28 April 2015, Geneva, Switzerland History does not end. History is remembered, recounted, studied and discussed, time and again, and by …
27 January is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945. For the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), it also marks a failure, the failure to help and protect the millions of …
This publication provides ICRC staff with a coherent, integrated approach to delivering high-quality programmes while remaining accountable to affected people. By providing a common language and …
22-01-2020 22 January 2020 (Khartoum) – The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on 22 January 2020 renewed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with …
In the town of El Callao, in eastern Venezuela, the majority of people who work in mining live and work in outdoor settlements, making them very susceptible to malaria. Between June and July 2019, …
Suada fled from her home in Sudan to Ethiopia in 2013 due to the armed conflict that broke out in her country. Fortunately, she and her family (her children and husband) reached a refugee Camp in …
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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.
