This is a summary of the final report of the evaluation of the qualitative and quantitative results of the Safer Access to Essential Public Services Programme. The program was developed by the ICRC …
This is the executive summary of the evaluation of the ICRC's crisis management and response to the COVID-19 pandemic . It includes a summary of the management response to recommendations. The …
Statement Observations by the International Committee of the Red Cross on the occasion of the Meeting of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of …
Statement Speech by Dr Gilles Carbonnier, vice-president of the ICRC at the 21st Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of …
21-11-2023 Patrick Youssef is regional director for Africa at the International Committee of the Red Cross. He has just returned from Sudan, where he met representatives of the government and of the …
20-11-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) traveled to Qatar on Monday to advance humanitarian issues related to the armed conflict in Israel and …
16-11-2023 Nairobi (ICRC) – Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced in recent weeks as floods continue to ravage towns in Somalia. Dozens of people have already been rescued by the Somali …
In situations of armed conflict and other violence, disasters, and migration, people go missing. Families are separated, and dead bodies may never be identified and returned home. The effects of this …
In an era marked by evolving security concerns and numerous possibilities for industrial accidents, the need for being able to treat victims exposed to Chemical, Biological, Radiological or Nuclear …
14-11-2023 Speech given at the United Nations Office at Geneva by François Moreillon, head of delegation for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the Democratic Republic of 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.
