by the ICRC Brussels delegation The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the …
03-08-2018 Sana'a (ICRC): The International Committee of the Red Cross condemns Thursday's hits in the coastal city of Hodeida which resulted in the killing and wounding of scores of civilians. "The …
Ingy Sedky The Syrian woman poured a glass of muddy water and handed it to me. "Drink it!" my host said. It was a hot summer day in August in a shelter in the middle of the desert. I eyed the dark …
Residents of the villages scattered along the shore of the Sea of Azov between Mariupol and Novoazovsk had always felt blessed by fortune. There was never a lack of people wanting to spend a lazy …
The incident killed at least nine people and wounded 11 others including civilians As a result of Tuesday's blast in Lamitan City, Basilan, which killed at least nine people and wounded 11 others …
“The Red Cross is my husband,” Falensa Samo sings after receiving her kit of essential household items including blankets, buckets, jerry cans, sleeping mats and pots. Falensa, who hails from Kunkwe …
January - June 2018 Facts & Figures "Seventy percent of deaths from illnesses in South Sudan are caused by curable diseases such as malaria, respiratory tract infections and diarrhea," says Divin …
For high school students fortunate enough to live in peaceful societies, the realities of life in a war zone can be difficult to imagine. In Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, …
International Humanitarian Law (IHL) may be easy to understand by those with legal knowledge, but can seem really complicated to others, especially the young. Simply put, IHL seeks to limit the …
Of the hundreds of families that once called Vodiane home, only seven now inhabit this tiny village that was known as Mariupol's favourite vacation spot. But those times are long gone. Isolated and …
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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.
