02-06-2022 Bamako/Nairobi/Geneva, 2 June 2022—The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is shocked and saddened by the violent deaths of two Red Cross aid workers who were killed …
Щоб відвідати нашу сторінку українською мовою, натисніть тут Have you lost contact with members of your family? Are you looking for information about your loved ones? Since the escalation of the …
For most of human history, in times of armed conflict, fighters falling into the hands of their enemy have been taken captive. In international armed conflict, such persons are known as prisoners of …
01-06-2022 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and its partners— the Jordan National Red Crescent Society (JRCS) and the Jordan Media Institute (JMI) have announced the commencement …
01-06-2022 The intense, ongoing clashes in Rutshuru Territory between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and M23 fighters have caused more than 72,000 people [1] to flee their …
On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict (19th of June), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will be supporting the collaboration …
31-05-2022 Millions of people living in Somalia continue to face the severe impact of the drought. At the beginning of May 2022, the estimated number of people affected by drought in Somalia rose to …
This publication has two modules contained in separate volumes. The first module deals with models of care, while the second is a catalogue of functional spaces. VOLUME 1: MODELS OF CARE A model of …
26-05-2022 Tunis (ICRC) – As summer arrives and increasing numbers of migrants risk everything to cross the Mediterranean, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is calling for closer …
23-05-2022 Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is running a vast water project in the city of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to help over 330,000 people …
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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.
