29-11-2017 (Geneva) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today launches a new website – missingmigrants.icrc.org – calling global attention to the human stories behind the …
The ICRC and Mozambique Red Cross Society are delivering humanitarian assistance to people affected by armed violence in central …
Baghdad. Woman and child in front of the remains of a warehouse destroyed by coalition forces bombing. Photo: VOETEN Teun Anthony/ICRC On 28 November, in the framework of a two-day symposium on "War …
28-11-2017 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has asked its donors for more than 2 billion Swiss Francs to fund its operations in 2018, to assist and protect millions of people …
War in Cities Symposium 28 November 2017, Humanitarium, Geneva. Statement by the ICRC President, Peter Maurer . Tonight, I will start with the broader picture: conflict dynamics and the humanitarian …
Almost two decades on from an outbreak of communal violence, the ICRC and Tanjungpura University (UNTAN) held a seminar in the Indonesian province of West Kalimantan, to explore the linkages between …
27-11-2017 Yerevan (ICRC) – An exhibition highlighting the anguish of families whose loved ones have been missing in connection with the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was organized to mark 25 years of …
The team from Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) lifted the winner's trophy at the IHL Moot Court Competition recently organized by the ICRC in partnership with the International Islamic University …
Meet Farhana Javid. The 38-year-old psychologist from India is a mental health delegate in Sloviansk, eastern Ukraine. She counsels and supports the residents of front-line communities and helps them …
Government representatives from nine countries participated in the Seventh South Asian Conference on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) to discuss and deliberate on key issues related 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.
