In all, 2017 was an extremely difficult year for the ICRC in Afghanistan. After 30 years of continuous presence in the country, a series of consecutive attacks on its staff in less than nine months …
EGYPT OPERATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS 2017 JANUARY – DECEMBER 2017 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been working in Egypt, with some interruptions, for more than 100 years. During World …
To coincide with the first meeting of the Group of Governmental Experts of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons on autonomous weapon systems in November …
The Regional IHL Department in Cairo would like to thank all those who have shown interest in the activities that aim to support and promote understanding and dialogue on IHL by contributing to the …
By Peter Maurer, the ICRC President . Syria enters its seventh year of fighting in 2018. Hunger and disease will affect millions of people in Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen. Around the world, people …
The population southwest of Bujumbura now has easier access to drinking water, thanks to an ICRC water-supply project carried out in partnership with REGIDESO, Burundi’s water company. CC BY-NC-ND / …
Orphans milk goats at an orphanage in Russia’s Novgorod Province, August 1914. The ICRC supported charities throughout Russia and Eastern Europe. A hundred years after the First World War came to an …
28-01-2018 Juba - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has informed parties involved in the conflict in South Sudan that it can facilitate any potential release of persons detained in …
It's been a difficult year for the humanitarian community in Afghanistan. Besides the fragmented conflict landscape in some parts of the country, there is growing insecurity and an increase in …
Operational Highlights for 2017 The fourth year of South Sudan's civil war saw a severe deterioration of humanitarian conditions across the country. The conflict has claimed innumerable lives 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.
