Working for the ICRC: HR manager
This film introduces you to the profession of administrator at the ICRC. It highlights the complexity of the files one handles in the post, the importance of the administrator's work within an ICRC …
This film introduces you to the profession of administrator at the ICRC. It highlights the complexity of the files one handles in the post, the importance of the administrator's work within an ICRC …
26-09-2016 Bogotá (ICRC) ‒ The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) welcomes the peace agreement between the Colombian Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's …
26-09-2016 Geneva/New York (IFRC/ICRC) – On the occasion of this year's International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement renews …
Over 90 high ranking officers from 71 countries will be in Lucerne from 26 September to 1st October for a workshop on international rules governing military operations. This senior workshop, …
Libya in 2016 is plagued by conflict. Multiple armed groups, fighting, crime, and kidnapping are destroying normal life. Families are fleeing their homes, or living in constant fear. The bright hopes …
Address by the International Committee of the Red Cross's Middle East Director, Robert Mardini, to UNGA leaders at a side event focused on the humanitarian situation in Syria. Excellencies Ladies and …
Arriving in Arawa Town shortly after ten on the morning of August 30th, Isabell Neriema sat sweating beneath the big rain tree in Independence Oval. She stared at the line of stores beside what …
Badri Gamgebeli went missing in September 1993 during the armed conflict in Abkhazia. Over the ensuing 23 years, his family heard various stories indicating that he was still alive. Some days, …
A Conference co-organised by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS). Migration is a global phenomenon. Worldwide, the number …
Sexual violence is tragically prevalent in many modern conflicts. The ICRC is committed to further increasing its efforts in the prevention of this devastating violation and to provide assistance to …
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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.