The report describes the needs, the challenges and the expectations of the families of missing persons related to the "Vala de Perus" case. Relatives of missing persons visit the lab where the …
18-12-2017 Geneva/Damascus (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is alarmed by the intensifying fighting in Eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of Damascus, which is taking an …
Meeting of States Parties, Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention. Statement by the ICRC President, Peter Maurer Twenty years ago anti-personnel mines were a regular and lethal feature of armed conflicts …
Procurement and logistics are important for any organization, but especially for a humanitarian organization with operations around the world. For the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), …
Professor (Dr) Muhammad Munir is the vice-president and director-general of Shariah Academy and a professor of law at the International Islamic University. Considered an authority on international …
What is it like to be a forensic anthropologist in Colombia? Death is not something you ever get used to. At least that's what Ángel Medina believes. He has been working as a forensic anthropologist …
The ICRC delegation to the African Union organized a briefing on ICRC activities in the Lake Chad Basin Region for the Defense Attachés of the Military Attachés Association based in Addis Ababa, on 8 …
International Conference on the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons Christine Beerli, the vice president of the ICRC, was in India 4–7 December 2017 to attend the International Conference on …
Water is life Clean drinking water is a priority in Rakhine. Communities displaced by the recent violence have been digging the ground to find water, using nearby ponds, and seawater for cooking and …
This factsheet provides a summary of the activities that the ICRC carries out for vulnerable migrants and their families in Africa. It explains our approach and describes what we, together 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.
