The olive harvest season is traditionally a joyous time for Palestinians, an occasion for families to get together and celebrate. However, as more farmers face restrictions on access to their land, …
Migrants endure great physical and emotional hardship. The ICRC and Red Cross Societies in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador are encouraging migrants to take measures to look after their …
Delegates from the International committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) briefed the Chinese Academy of Governance (CAG) and Blue Sky Rescue Team staffs on humanitarian principles and practices on Nov. …
On Nov. 27th, 2017, Vincent Raymond Ochilet, Deputy Head of the ICRC Regional Delegation for East Asia gives opening remarks during an emergency management training session at the Chinese Academy of …
09-12-2017 Geneva / Sana'a – As reports of intense fighting along Yemen's Red Sea Coast continue to emerge, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) urges all parties to the conflict in …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is organizing its 31st surgical seminar in Geneva. It will be held at Ecogia training centre from 3.00 p.m. on Sunday 10 December to 4.00 p.m. on …
Imagine surviving a war, only for your child to go missing. The CCTV footage at the beginning is a reenactment; however, the scenes of families being reunited after years apart are all too real. You …
11-12-2017 Geneva – The number of families being separated by conflict, violence and natural disaster is at a five year high according to data from the International Committee of the Red Cross …
The conflict in Syria continues to fuel one of the largest and most complex humanitarian crises in the world today. According to Pawel Krzysiek, ICRC Head of Communications in Syria, the conflict is …
The ICRC, working closely with the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS), has treated 30,000 patients in the past three months in Cox's Bazar. Every day, four doctors, four paramedics and BDRCS …
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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.
