The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been protecting and assisting people affected by war and other violence for over 160 years. Now that the changing climate is creating a …
Shanghai (ICRC) - The Regional Delegation for East Asia of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Tongji University Law School co-organized a seminar on the Contemporary Development …
09-06-2023 The suffering inflicted on communities following the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam comes on top of months of repeated shelling and grinding conflict. The disaster is far from over …
Hunger strikes are a type of protest. Historically and worldwide, detainees have turned to hunger strikes to protest their detention, their treatment in detention or their conditions of detention. …
08-06-2023 The humanitarian consequences of the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam prove how damage to critical infrastructure can plunge entire communities into despair and devastate civilian …
An open hut at the Pureni Health Centre in Hela, Papua New Guinea (PNG), has a cheerful buzz as a group of women gather and greet each other. Some have walked for two hours across the green hills, …
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 …
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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.
