'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 …
08-05-2023 Ouagadougou – On World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Burkinabe Red Cross Society express their deepest concern about the spiralling …
08-05-2023 Juba, South Sudan (ICRC) - today, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has inaugurated a new Operating Theatre (OT) in Juba Military Hospital (JMH). The OT will provide …
Statement Henry caring for the wounded in Solferino, Hilda helping hurricane victims in Port Vila, Mohamed monitoring the nutritional condition of the inmates in Baidoa prison, Yulima teaching first …
The Safer Access to Essential Public Services Programme was developed by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) with the aim of mitigating the consequences of armed violence for …
Alfonso Verdú Pérez is the Head of Delegation for the ICRC in Sudan. He gives us an inside look at the situation on the ground and the challenges he and his team face daily. I would use the words …
04-05-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – An estimated 100,000 people fleeing increased violence in Sudan are already seeking safety in neighboring countries including the Central African Republic, South Sudan, …
The unforgiving sun beats down on Taga's back as he trudges through the rugged terrain, not knowing where his journey will take him. He is one of the many refugees, asylum seekers and migrants who …
This evaluation, completed in August 2022, assessed the ICRC's Health Care in Danger Strategy. The evaluation identified good practices where the ICRC delivers effectively through the theory of …
This evaluation, completed in November 2022, assessed the ICRC's programme to rehabilitate critical water infrastructure serving communities in Jordan . The evaluation assessed the programme as …
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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.
