03-07-2018 Dhaka (ICRC) – I am leaving this region with a sober assessment of the situation here. I travelled to both sides of the border – to the northern parts of Rakhine State where people had …
It's hard to imagine life without electricity. Yet this is the case for countless number of people affected by armed conflict in Yemen, Syria, South Sudan and Iraq. Many experience frequent …
Juba/Nairobi (ICRC): After weeks of fighting that prevented humanitarian aid from reaching people around Leer, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been granted safe access to …
"Everything we had was gone... We were left with nothing," recalled Mohammed Ali, a resident of Gudis village in Darolebu district in eastern Ethiopia. He was among the more than 8,400 families …
Claude Voillat, Economic Adviser of the International Committee of the Red Cross, was interviewed during his visit in Beijing, China this April. He answered the following questions: Why is the ICRC …
Equateur province, Saba Saba. Cassava plantation planted with the help of the ICRC, and managed by volunteers of the Red Cross Society of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and local associations. …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) held the regional launch of the third edition of the Professional Standards for Protection Work in Amman on 25 June with the participation of …
More armed groups have emerged in the last seven years than in the previous 70. So how do you influence them to respect the rules of war? This was the subject of discussion at the Royal United …
27-06-2018 Geneva/Damascus (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is concerned about the safety of tens of thousands of civilians caught in the line of fire or fleeing …
The critical importance of the laws of war and the accountability of States pursuing or supporting military campaigns in urban centres topped the agenda at a parliamentary event held in London this …
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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.
