After 25 years of sharing offices with the Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation's physical rehabilitation centre in Battambang, the ICRC's physical rehabilitation programme …
In February 2016, the United Nations Secretary General released his Report on the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS). The report calls on States, United Nations agencies, civil society and all parties …
In 2015 the ICRC continued to help hundreds of thousands of people reconnect with their families following refugee influx in Tanzania and Djibouti. We provided economic support to people directly or …
The ICRC's policy objectives and positions are based on its operational experience and aim to enhance the protection and assistance of people affected by armed conflicts and other situations of …
22-04-2016 Geneva/Bamako (ICRC) – The three staff members with whom the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had lost contact on 16 April were unconditionally released today, safe and …
On 21 April 2016, the ICRC hosted a livestreamed panel at the Humanitarium to discuss whether international humanitarian law (IHL) is under threat today; and if so – what are the ways forward to …
A multimedia photo exhibition is highlighting the vulnerability of men coping with war and conflict in Lebanon and across the region. The aim of the exhibition is to sensitize public opinion to the …
The ICRC in Kampala has successfully handed over ten minor children to the ICRC delegation in the DRC at Bunagana point on the Uganda-DRC border for reunification with their families. The children, …
Damascus/Geneva - More than 120,000 people, in the besieged town of Al Rastan, near Homs have begun receiving food, medical aid and items for the provision of clean water. The aid was delivered by …
20-04-2016 Geneva (ICRC) – The body of an Armenian soldier was returned today in an operation carried out under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The handover took …
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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.
