PMI and ICRC distributing spectacles and offering cataract surgery in the center highland areas of Papua. Credit: ICRC After a tragic incident in 2013, the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) has stepped up …
Sana’a / Geneva, 12 August 2016 – The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement mourns the death of another volunteer from the Yemen Red Crescent Society. Khalid Abdullah, a 65-year-old Red …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) would like to confirm that the video currently circulating in the media does indeed show its staff member, Nourane Houas. Nourane was abducted …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has extended its support of physical rehabilitation centres in Sudan to a seventh facility, in El Obaid in North Kordofan State. The ICRC offered …
Communities and families in the Khagrachari, Bandarban and Rangamati districts of Chittagong Hill Tracts, in southern Bangladesh have been struggling to sustain their livelihoods. Since mid-2014, the …
Women have suffered tremendously due to the conflict in South Sudan that is well into its third year. After a brief period of hope for full-blown peace, a recent flare-up in violence has made matters …
On 10 August 2016, the ICRC organized a livestreamed panel discussion at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg to discuss respect for international humanitarian law (IHL) on the African …
As Zambians prepare to vote during the 2016 national election, Zambia Red Cross Society (ZRCS) volunteers have been deployed at campaign events across the country. In this video, we follow the ZRCS …
Armed conflict in northeast Nigeria and the Lake Chad region has displaced an estimated two million people. Around 150,000 people have fled to neighbouring countries while many more remain internally …
Preparatory Committee for the Eighth Review Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and …
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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.
