Tabib , meaning "doctor" in Arabic, is a short film set in Syria by Italian director Carlo D'Ursi. Based on real events, the film imagines the final moments of a doctor's life before his hospital is …
Emmanuel (4), Monika (6) and Victor (12) were abducted from their village in South Sudan on the 28 August 2016. “The children were taken around 7pm. That is when we normally sit around the fire place …
Islamabad: Over 30 Islamic scholars and professors of Islamic studies from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Iran gathered in Islamabad for discussions on commonalities between the Islamic law …
During 2017, the security situation deteriorated dramatically in the Central African Republic (CAR), causing massive displacement of rural communities as a result of fighting between a proliferation …
Nicosie (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) recently organized a two-day study tour to Cyprus for the Georgian and Abkhaz participants of the coordination mechanism it chairs …
Boon Auan Khamsook is originally from a remote village in the north-west of Cambodia. In 1974, she went across to the Thai border to sell charcoal. When the Khmer Rouge sealed the border she was …
The latest report by the World Prison Population List estimates that close to 11 million people are held in penal institutions across the world. Thus, it becomes imperative to take care of prisoners' …
Adopted at the Assembly meeting on 21 December 2017 and came into force on 1 January 2018 Download the ICRC's internal regulations document: INTERNAL REGULATIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF …
Adopted on 21 December 2017 and came into force on 1 January 2018 Download the Statutes of the ICRC The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent …
29-12-2017 Damascus/Beirut/Geneva, 29 December 2017—Syrian Arab Red Crescent volunteers and staff from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have successfully transferred 29 people with …
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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.
