Opening statement of Gilles Carbonnier, Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) at Vienna conference on "Protecting Civilians in Urban Warfare" (1-2 October 2019) On …
Around 25 professors and academics from universities in China, Mongolia, Japan and Korea came together for the 2nd Annual Northeast Asia Training Course for University Lecturers on International …
UNESCO partnered with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) co-organized the ICRC's 8th Regional Conference on International Humanitarian Law in Asia and Pacific, with the support of …
At first glance, the small village of Aita, in the central part of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, seems idyllic, but a deeper look reveals a sad history. Nestled between the Pacific Ocean and …
A brief introduction to our work to boost food security and protect agricultural production among conflict-affected communities. Read how we build people’s resilience and help restore their …
30-09-2019 Geneva/Sanaa (ICRC) – The unilateral release of 290 detainees, including 42 survivors of an attack on a place of detention in Dhamar this month, took place today. The release was …
Open to Palestinian journalists working in print media The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), an independent humanitarian organisation working to protect and assist victims of armed …
Viktor and his wife have not seen their children and grandchildren for more than six months now. They live only a few kilometres away from one another in the Lugansk/Luhansk region but are 100 km …
UNGA74 High-Level Side Event on "Advancing Digital Trust, Security and Cooperation", 23 September 2019 The digital space is the next frontier in war, and like in physical war, trust and truth will be …
Pretoria (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) welcomes southern African states’ collective commitment to contribute to a global ban on nuclear weapons by signing and fully …
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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.
