Money is the main means of survival for most people around the world. In armed conflict, having cash to buy essential goods can mean the difference between life and death for people suffering the …
Factsheet on the international institutions established to deal with international criminal justice. In particular, the following questions/topics are addressed: the Ad Hoc international criminal …
Doha (ICRC/QRCS)– Senior leaders and staff from National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies from across the Middle East, Africa, central Asia and Europe are gathering in Doha from 30 to 31 October …
Ghouta means "fields" in Arabic. It was an agricultural region, supplying food and furniture to Damascus and other parts of Syria. Now it's fields of rubble, concrete and twisted metal. The contrast …
Since data protection in humanitarian action is a fast evolving area, the ICRC and the Brussels Privacy Hub have started working on a second edition of this Handbook. On the one hand, the regulatory …
Isheanotida Chikaka, Stephanie Mutasa and Kudakwashe Shamu representing the University of Zimbabwe (UZ). The University of Zimbabwe successfully defended their title as champions in the 2018 Zimbabwe …
29-10-2018 Beirut – Her Royal Highness The Grand Duchess of Luxembourg paid visit to Rafik Hariri University Hospital this week on a humanitarian visit to learn from the experience of RHUH, ICRC and …
Statement by the ICRC at the United Nations General Assembly Statement by the ICRC at the United Nations General Assembly, 73rd session, Third Committee, agenda item 74(b) The International Committee …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Sudanese Red Crescent Society (SRCS) have provided humanitarian assistance to families in Tawila Locality, North Darfur. Many of them were …
Speech of ICRC Vice President Gilles Carbonnier at the 8th Xiangshan Forum Let me first thank the organizers for inviting the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to the 8th Beijing …
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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.
