08-09-2017 Geneva/Myanmar/Bangladesh (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Myanmar and Bangladesh is scaling up its efforts to minimize the suffering of people fleeing …
The policies surrounding the construction and expansion of Israeli settlements are a key factor in most of the humanitarian challenges the ICRC deals with on a daily basis in the West Bank. The …
Joint statement by the Republic of South Africa and the International Committee of the Red Cross on the occasion of the 17th Annual regional seminar on international humanitarian law State …
The ICRC mission consists not only to protect and support victims of conflicts and violence, but also to promote and broadcast the international humanitarian law. We organize different activities, …
The 1988-1997 conflict in Bougainville resulted in the loss of thousands of lives. Many went missing at the outbreak of violence and remain unaccounted for, leaving their loved ones to endure the …
ICRC and AU commit to continue the well-established relationship The new Head of the ICRC delegation to the African Union, Jean-Jacques Tshamala, presented his letter of credence to the Chairperson …
Um Mohammad, Gaza City “I don’t see any future for my children here in Gaza. I think about it so much that I sometimes wish my mind would stop working.” CC BY-NC-ND /Alyona Synenko/ICRC Ibrahim …
06-09-2017 Geneva (ICRC) - The ICRC has created the world's first "Humanitarian Impact Bond" to help transform the way vital services for people with disabilities are financed in conflict-hit …
Facts and figures for January to June 2017 In March 2017, the ICRC closed its last sub-office in Liberia located in Zwedru, Grand Gedeh County. The following month we ended our prison activities …
Ten teams from seven universities in the cities of Guayaquil, Ibarra and Quito took part in the Manuel Muñoz Borrero National Competition on International Humanitarian Law. The aim is to raise …
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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.
