23-04-2020 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today donated a consignment of vital intensive care equipment to Gazan hospitals but warned that much more needs to be done to get Gaza …
Unprecedented stress on the most advanced health-care systems. Extreme strain on major economies and financial markets. A global shutdown such as the world has never seen before. This is today's …
23-04-2020 Port Moresby (ICRC) – As the COVID-19 pandemic looms, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has stepped up its humanitarian response in Papua New Guinea and adopted a …
22-04-2020 Mexico City – The regional delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for Mexico and Central America published its 2020 report highlighting the main humanitarian …
A Gaza city resident buys bread from a bakery. The photo shows new precautionary measures taken amid novel coronavirus (COVID-19) breakout. Gaza City By Abed Zagout A child from Gaza city buys bread …
22-04-2020 Detainees across the Solomon Islands can now call their loved ones with the support from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Due to the ongoing global threat of COVID-19 , …
As deaths due to COVID-19 rise in Bangladesh, the bereaved families face yet another grim reality – that of not being able to bury their loved ones with full rituals due to the fear of exposing …
22-04-2020 Geneva (ICRC) – The number of deaths caused by COVID-19 could overwhelm local capacity to handle dead bodies properly, the International Committee of the Red Cross warned today. Officials …
Mexico is one of Latin America’s largest and most populous and diverse countries. Given the social and cultural differences between areas, the approaches needed to address the humanitarian problems …
Central America is large – nearly 13 times the size of Switzerland – and its geography varies widely, just like the economic, social and political circumstances. These differences from country to …
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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.
