Geneva (ICRC) – Nearly one month since intense fighting broke out in Sudan, the humanitarian situation is quickly deteriorating. Civilians trapped in Khartoum are facing serious food and water …
Thirty-seven outstanding nurses from 22 countries have been awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal , which recognizes exceptional courage and devotion to victims of armed conflict or natural …
States face a formidable task when it comes to implementing international humanitarian law (IHL) within the domestic legal order. This table contains information on all existing national committees …
Fighting in urban areas takes place where there are many civilians and civilian objects, causing significant suffering to civilians. This handbook explains methods of reducing harm to civilians …
11-05-2023 Brasilia (ICRC) – During a visit to Brasilia this week, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mirjana Spoljaric, raised the importance of upholding …
ICRC Director General Robert Mardini and Special Envoy for Foresight and Techplomacy Balthasar Staehelin attended the third Riyadh International Humanitarian Forum (RIHF) on 21-22 February, organized …
The Regional Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay is based in Brasilia, with offices in Boa Vista (Roraima), Fortaleza …
Darien, Panama. Can you imagine that a loved one has to migrate or is forced to migrate and you don't hear from that person for days? Anguish, fear, uncertainty, and despair would be part of the …
It doesn’t take a physicist to know that time is really relative, and that ten years can feel like ten minutes, while ten minutes can be as slow as ten years. This is how Turki Al-Naimi, a Syrian …
'Monitoring Patterns of Violence' is one of a series of twelve projects of the Engineering Humanitarian Action (EHA) initiative launched jointly by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH …
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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.
