Speech given by Mr Peter Maurer, president of the ICRC, at International Conference on Islam and IHL in Qom, Iran. Your Excellencies, Distinguished guests, Let me first express my appreciation and …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is to host talks with delegations from Argentina and the United Kingdom to discuss with a view to agreeing on next steps relating to the …
08-12-2016 Damascus/Geneva: Nearly 150 civilians, most of whom were disabled or in urgent need of care, were evacuated late night from a hospital in the Old City of Aleppo, in a joint operation by …
On a barren patch of desert in northern Iraq, Abu Tiba and hundreds of other civilians wait for the torment to end. The freezing nights, the food shortages and -- worst of all -- the mortars and …
In December 2016, the ICRC in collaboration with the Jordan Red Crescent Society, distributed food parcels, personal hygiene items and winter clothes to over 4,000 Syrian refugees living in Madaba …
06-12-2016 A new Red Cross survey shows that the majority of Australians oppose torture in war but many don't know that torturing a soldier for information is wrong, while some think it is …
- A story on the 10th Anniversary of IHL Moot Court Song Tianying was one of the mooters from China University of Political Science and Law for the International Humanitarian Law Moot Court in 2008. …
05-12-2016 Geneva (ICRC) – With fighting intensifying around the Syrian city of Aleppo, a new survey , published today, on how people around the world perceive a range of issues relating to war, …
For a decade I've worked as a photographer documenting the devastating effects of war on civilians. From Angola to Gaza, Iraq to Cambodia, I've witnessed how modern warfare destroys bodies, minds and …
In 2016, the ICRC commissioned WIN/Gallup International to conduct a survey among the general public in 16 countries to capture the public's views on a range of issues pertaining to the rules of war. …
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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.
