08-06-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – More than 280 children and 70 caretakers from a Khartoum orphanage affected by heavy combat have been evacuated to a safer location outside the capital. A team from the …
What do football grounds, teahouses and livestock markets have in common? In conflict-affected parts of Azerbaijan, these are some of the places where the International Committee of the Red Cross …
Russia and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) share a long history, dating back to 1867 when Russia acceded to the original Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of …
The application and interpretation of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 have developed significantly in the sixty years since the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) first published its …
Livestock farming is one of the main sources of income for people in central and northern Mali. However, the ongoing armed conflict and the growing impact of climate change are hampering the efforts …
Even if the Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most ratified human rights convention in the world, ICRC's president Mirjana Spoljaric stresses that much more needs to be done to protect …
Statement Statement by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) following the meeting of the Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems of the Convention on Certain …
The business card contains the QR code to access the Childhood in Rubble: The Humanitarian Consequences of Urban Warfare for Children report. It can be used at events to signpost people directly to …
This leaflet is for parents of children undergoing a treatment for clubfoot. The Ponseti method is a serial casting method that needs a close monitoring. Parents will need guidance. This leaflet does …
Due to recurrent armed conflict and violence, the humanitarian needs of the affected communities in South Sudan remain high. From January to December 2022, the International Committee of the Red …
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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.
