12-12-2019 Geneva (ICRC/IFRC) - Representatives from 168 States joined 187 Red Cross Red Crescent Societies, at the International Conference in Geneva which closed today. The International …
Kuala Lumpur (ICRC) – Six pieces of humanitarian reporting have been selected as winning entries for the Young Humanitarian Writers Competition 2019. This year, more than 160 entries were received …
Sexual and gender-based violence is a pervasive phenomenon that exists in every part of the globe. Often rooted in perception and stigma, victim/survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) …
Opening remarks by Peter Maurer Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I warmly thank Austria for organizing this side-event and for inviting me to open the discussion. I also thank the 27 States and …
The ICRC and the Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) jointly distributed 1,167 essential household items to people affected by ethnic violence in Gondar town and its environs in Amhara Region in …
Appeal on nuclear weapons delivered at the Council of Delegates of the Red Cross and Red Crescent on 8 December 2019 by Haruka Adachi of the Japanese Red Cross Youth. Seventy four years after the …
A recent report drafted by the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), provides a comparative analysis about whether domestic …
Statement Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, colleagues and friends, Welcome to the 33rd International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, a unique platform for our Movement and the High …
Cairo (Al-Azhar, ICRC) – Experts in Islamic studies and international humanitarian law participated in a two-day workshop during which they addressed and exchanged views on specific issues that …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is organizing its 33rd surgical seminar in Geneva. It will be held at Ecogia training centre from Sunday 8 December to Friday 13 December. The …
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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.
