09-02-2016 Monrovia (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has donated 480 copies of a new training manual on the law of armed conflict (LoAC), also known as international …
The ambassador of Japan, Mr Masahiko Kiya, paid a visit to the Juba Military Hospital last month where he saw patients with gunshot wounds and met with members of an International Committee of the …
09-02-2016 Port Moresby– The government of Papua New Guinea has signed an agreement with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) that will enable the humanitarian organisation to …
The ICRC has been present in Lebanon since 1967 and has carried out its humanitarian work through periods of conflict, including 1975-1990 civil war. Currently it is responding to the rapidly growing …
Beirut (ICRC) –- The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut and the Lebanese Ministry of Health today signed a memorandum of understanding …
In Lebanon, the ICRC's work includes visiting detainees and finding missing persons. We are helping displaced people fleeing war and violence across the region and the communities hosting them. The …
On 5 February 2016, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) and the ICRC hosted the fifth workshop on data protection as part of good governance in international organisations at the ICRC …
Written by Marianne Gasser, head of the ICRC delegation in Syria. It was 15 March, 2011. I took the usual short walk to my office, enjoying the cool breeze and soft glow of a beautiful spring …
Residents of Krasnohorivka in Ukraine's Donetsk region are rebuilding homes destroyed during shelling. The repair teams consist of skilled workers who have lost their jobs due to the conflict, and …
Speech given by Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, at the Syria Pledging Conference 2016 in London. Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, When my colleagues …
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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.
