The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is devastated by the loss of one of its staff, Abdulhafid Yusuf Ibrahim, in Mogadishu. He passed away Wednesday night after succumbing to injuries …
A girl sitting outside her family house at Al-Nada towers in the north of Gaza. The building was destroyed during the 2014 war, then poorly reconstructed to provide a shelter for the family. Two …
The ICRC President's speech for the launch of a new discussion paper on community engagement and accountability to affected people. On a recent visit to Syria, I spoke with some teachers about how …
Having access to hygiene cooking facilities is essential to ensuring that the daily nutritional needs of inmates in prison are met. In this video, we see the impact of collaboration between the …
Attacks against health-care workers, hospitals and ambulances disrupt health-care services and deprive people of life-saving treatment. In 2011, the ICRC and Red Cross and Red Crescent …
©ICRC/C. von Toggenburg This public discussion seeks to examine some common beliefs surrounding prison overcrowding to encourage more and better action and collaboration in the field of data …
On 26 March, the ICRC, in partnership with the Graduate Institute, launched the new Global Research and Debate Cycle on Migration and Displacement. ICRC President Peter Maurer and forced migration …
On 26 March, the ICRC, in partnership with the Graduate Institute, launched the new Global Research and Debate Cycle on Migration and Displacement. ICRC President Peter Maurer and forced migration …
The ICRC and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) launched a joint discussion paper that provides recommendations for humanitarian organisations and donors in today's digital era. This 3 minute …
23-03-2018 Bukavu (ICRC) – Twenty seven people who had been held by an armed group since 3 March 2018 were handed over today to the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in …
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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.
