Ethiopian Red Cross Society deputy secretary general, Engida Mandefro, addressing participants of the training. “The training would help participants to handle the duty of body management in a better …
Peter Maurer, joined by other officials of the organization, are warmly welcomed by staff and volunteers of the Philippine Red Cross chapter in Marawi upon their arrival at the ICRC water and …
The ICRC, like many organizations across different sectors and regions, is grappling with the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning for its work. Since these are software …
The impact of armed conflict on the natural environment is often acknowledged, but its scale is largely underestimated. From 1946 to 2010, conflict was the single most important predictor of declines …
As one of the leading humanitarian organizations, the ICRC considers its moral responsibility to integrate sustainability into its activities. The New Delhi delegation has actively made efforts to …
January to March 2019 facts and figures Despite efforts by the main parties to the conflict to implement the revitalized peace agreement, the humanitarian situation remains critical in many parts of …
In a coordinated response by the ICRC, IFRC and Mozambique Red Cross Society (CVM), we assisted families who were affected by Cyclone Kenneth’s landfall in Cabo Delgado province in April 2019. We saw …
Playing against cricketers with physical disabilities for the first time, Bangladeshi star batsman Mohammad Ashraful said he was in awe of what he saw and experienced. "The players did an outstanding …
The remarkable resilience of the Filipino people became clear to me when I first visited after the devastation of Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. I returned this week to listen, to discuss, to offer support …
In May 2019, the ICRC head of policy, Dr Hugo Slim, gave a keynote address celebrating 70 years of the Geneva Conventions at the Australian National University's Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific …
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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.
