In a first for the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC), the Mission in Romania participated in a roundtable, organised annually by the Centre for International Humanitarian Law of the …
Speech given by Mirjana Spoljaric, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross to the UN Security Council in New York on the protection of civilians President Berset, excellencies, …
The 18th meeting of the Coordination Mechanism seeking to clarify the fate and whereabouts of people missing in relation to the armed conflicts of the 1990s and August 2008 and their aftermath was …
Urban warfare causes death and injury among civilians on a staggering scale. It destroys homes, communities and the social fabric. It cuts off access to health care, education, electricity, and clean …
The search for ways to improve our collective response has led the World Bank, UNICEF and the ICRC to publish a report. It is based on case studies from the field, as well as inputs from the Arab …
The Judgments Award: access to justice for migrants, refugees, and other persons subject to international protection seeks to make visible the judgments that have been issued under the highest norms …
A month into the conflict in Sudan, Alfonso Verdú Pérez, ICRC’s head of delegation in Sudan, sheds light on the pressing humanitarian needs and some of the challenges the team has faced since the …
18-05-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – Climate action in the Near and Middle East remains extremely weak in areas affected by armed conflict, and the most fragile and unstable places are almost entirely excluded …
Panama City, Panama. In a framework of exchange, the ICRC, the Panamanian Red Cross (PRC) and the Dominican Red Cross (DRC) are jointly deploying the Family Links Answers (FLA) tool, used by Red …
In 2022, the Iraqi Red Crescent and the International Committee of the Red Cross delegation in Iraq launched a photography contest on climate change. The results are stunning. Have you ever visited …
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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.
