26-05-2017 Thousands of people continue to flee the fighting in Marawi City in Lanao del Sur province, southern Philippines, seeking safety in neighboring areas such as Iligan City. Many families are …
Jerusalem/Geneva – Thirty-nine days into a collective hunger strike by Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) calls on all concerned parties and …
Debate on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict, Statement to the UN Security Council, New York, Speech given by Ms Christine Beerli, vice-president of the ICRC. The tragedies I've seen so …
This is my 5th visit to Syria and each time I come, I see more suffering. Nearly half of the population has been displaced and all are exhausted by conflict. The humanitarian needs are enormous, and …
Frequently Asked Questions – FAQs This document has been prepared by the partners of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (the Movement) who are involved in providing humanitarian …
The Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS), supported by the ICRC, kicked off yet another round of food distribution to 3,200 families (19,000 people),who fled from Rakhine State in Myanmar and are …
24-05-2017 Kiev (ICRC) – Three years after the start of the conflict in eastern Ukraine , several thousand people are still missing . Although the exact number is not known, what is clear is that …
Unión Alto Sanibeni is a small community of Asháninka people located in the jungle of central Peru. During the country's internal conflict in the 1980s and 1990s, violent clashes frequently broke out …
This brochure explains how the ICRC works to protect civilians in armed conflict and other situations of violence, proposing a step-by-step, multidisciplinary approach. The first chapter focuses on …
ICRC President, Peter Maurer says it's time for a paradigm shift to seek new ways to finance aid. This article appears as part of the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa 2017. …
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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.
