Caborca, Sonora, México Migrants arriving at the aid station in Caborca, northern Mexico, are often dehydrated. The local climate is hot and arid. Volunteers from the Mexican Red Cross give the …
31-08-2017 Beirut, Lebanon – On the International Day of the Disappeared, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is calling upon Lebanese authorities to fulfil their obligations to …
31-08-2017 Geneva (ICRC) – The Assembly of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has today appointed Mr Christoph Franz as its newest member. This brings the membership of the Committee …
Every Friday, 12 to 15 volunteers perform an hour-long street play. The project, which was initiated by the Health Care in Danger project, began in April 2017. South Sudan Red Cross already have a …
In the framework of the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Convention, the 7th Advanced International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Summer Session for Lecturers …
31-08-2017 BEIJING (Aug. 31) – In the framework of the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Convention, the 7th Advanced International Humanitarian Law (IHL) …
In February 2017, relatives of missing people in El Quiché (the department most affected by the violence during the war) were brought together to look at some personal possessions that had been …
The regional focus in the reporting period remained on the response to the cholera crisis in Yemen. It was channeled through the Amman-based regional Logistics Support Centre (LSC). The Amman …
José CENDON/ICRC On 30 August, in honor of the International Day of the Disappeared, the ICRC convenes a conference at the Humanitarium on the importance of remembrance and the story behind its …
Every day around the world, an alarming number of migrants go missing, either in transit, or in destination countries. They may be alive but unable to establish contact with their families for a …
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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.
