Geneva – The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is appalled to see the human misery that has unfolded over the last week in Israel and Gaza. Civilians - including women and children, …
13-10-2023 Geneva (ICRC) — Nothing can justify the horrific attacks Israel suffered last weekend. Our hearts go out to people who lost family members or are worried sick about loved ones taken …
13-10-2023 A statement from Patrick Youssef, ICRC’s regional director for Africa Geneva (ICRC) – Six months after the conflict broke out in Sudan, I feel pained and frustrated. This tragedy has …
Statement Statement delivered by Laurent Gisel, Head of the Arms and Conduct of Hostilities Unit at the Legal Division of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), at the 78th session of …
Between 2021 and 2023, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) convened a global advisory board of high-level leaders and experts from the legal, military, policy, technological, and …
12-10-2023 A statement from Fabrizio Carboni, the regional director for the Near and Middle East for the International Committee of the Red Cross. Geneva (ICRC) – The human misery caused by this …
Jeanne Egger – the ICRC’s first female delegate after the Second World War – passed away in September 2023. “I found it hard to live without a commitment to work or to a person you want to help.” …
Buom Kobuong Gatduop used to live an active life as a freelance journalist. He was a volunteer at a humanitarian organization, and an active member of his community. Sadly, all this changed after he …
10-10-2023 Port-au-Prince (ICRC) – Extreme levels of armed violence in Haiti are preventing an increasing number of people from accessing essential services like health care. Many health facilities …
10-10-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – The recent violence in Israel and Gaza is at a level we have not seen in many years and has the potential to escalate dramatically, causing even more pain and anguish on …
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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.
