High-level event on famine prevention and response, United Nations General Assembly, 72nd session. Statement by the ICRC President, Peter Maurer . This year we saw famine loom over our world as …
21-09-2017 New York: At the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly, ICRC President Peter Maurer emphasized that conflict was at the root of the famines faced by communities in South …
21-09-2017 (New York) – At a UN General Assembly High-Level event on Syria, ICRC President Peter Maurer urged for the protection of Syrian civilians trapped by violence and internally displaced by …
On 18 May 1992, several weeks after fighting began in Bosnia-Herzegovina, an ICRC convoy entered Sarajevo with food and medicine. Led by the newly appointed head of delegation in Sarajevo, Frédéric …
On 18 September 2017, the ICRC and the Humanitarian Policy Group ( HPG ) convened a live-streamed panel at the Humanitarium gathering humanitarian agencies and researchers to identify current …
High Level Syria Crisis Ministerial Event, United Nations General Assembly, 72nd session. Statement by the ICRC President, Peter Maurer. Throughout the long years of conflict in Syria, the ICRC has …
Ministerial-level event on Iraq , United Nations General Assembly, 72nd session. Statement by the ICRC President, Peter Maurer As you know, the International Committee of the Red Cross is on the …
High-Level Humanitarian Event on South Sudan, United Nations General Assembly, 72nd session.Statement by the ICRC President, Peter Maurer. The humanitarian situation in South Sudan today is rapidly …
As for every learning process, theory comes first. Trainers share their knowledge and experience. CC BY-NC-ND / ICRC / Galina Balzamova Theoretical knowledge put into practice right away. This will …
20-09-2017 (New York) – In an address to world leaders at a high-level side event of the UN General Assembly, ICRC President Peter Maurer called for an end to impunity for attacks against civilians …
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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.
