28-10-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – After weeks of intense fighting, over two million civilians are trapped in the densely populated Gaza Strip with nowhere to flee to for safety. With hostilities continuing …
An eleven-year partnership with the Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania (CCBRT) Hospital and the ICRC came to a successful and sustainable closure by end 2022. The ICRC's …
27-10-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – A war surgery team and a weapon contamination specialist are among ten International Committee of the Red Cross experts who arrived in Gaza on Friday, entering alongside …
The business card contains the QR code to access the War in Cities: Preventing and Addressing the Humanitarian Consequences for Civilians report. It can be used at events to signpost people directly …
This framework aims to provide a comprehensive approach to building the capacity of hospital and surgical staff. It expands beyond the definition of capacity building as training to include three …
This document seeks to provide guidance in the use of tourniquets in contexts where the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) works. It may be used directly by trained professionals or to …
Statement Speech given by Mirjana Spoljaric, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross. United Nations Security Council Open Debate on Women, Peace, and Security. 25 October 2023 Mr. …
During the first six months of 2023, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) conducted 102 awareness sessions in Rakhine State, reaching out to 3,000 people and providing them with …
This is a summary of the final report of the evaluation of the Support Relationships in Armed Conflicts Initiative (SRI), a five-year strategy (2019-2023) aimed at broadening the ICRC's engagement …
The ICRC continues to work in Karabakh and the wider region to protect and save human life. This is the number one priority, every day. But great care is also taken to ensure respectful and dignified …
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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.
