The ICRC in World War Two: The Holocaust
27 January is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945. For the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), it also marks a failure, the failure to help and protect the millions of …
27 January is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945. For the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), it also marks a failure, the failure to help and protect the millions of …
Speech given by Peter Maurer, president of the ICRC, 28 April 2015, Geneva, Switzerland History does not end. History is remembered, recounted, studied and discussed, time and again, and by each …
The ICRC's Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, Christine Cipolla, was in Delhi to attend the Raisina Dialogue and meet a number of diplomats, academicians, humanitarian and development sector …
Over the last decades, tremendous advances have been made in ensuring that a minimum of humanity prevails in times of conflict, including on issues of internal displacement. In 2018, we saw the 20th …
Facts & Figures The ICRC has been present in Ethiopia since the beginning of the 1977 Ethio-Somalia armed conflict. Our work has remained to address the humanitarian needs of the people affected by …
This report provides an update on the 2016 report ' Translating the Kampala Convention into Practice: A Stocktaking Exercise '. It aims to capitalize on the momentum for engagement created by the …
“The ICRC gives high importance to the humanitarian situation in Africa. 45% of its operations are in the African continent.” President Maurer, during the AU PSC Briefing. Photo: Yohamin Teshome / …
A physical rehabilitation centre which was built in Jigjiga town, Somali Region, with technical and material support of the ICRC was inaugurated. The centre will provide physical rehabilitation …
International Humanitarian Law... in three hours. An impossible feat, some would say. But that's exactly what the UK and Ireland delegation and the British Red Cross did last week, in a training …
Geneva/Ouagadougou (ICRC) – In view of the fresh outbreak of violence in Burkina Faso, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) urges all parties to the conflict and all weapon bearers to …
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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.