When fighting broke out in her village in Blue Nile State, Sudan, Leila was on foot to her grandmother's house. Much to the dismay of her family, she didn't come home, so her father eventually turned …
22-10-2015 Geneva / Sana'a – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply concerned about the humanitarian impact of increasingly intense fighting in the city of Taiz, where there …
More than 1.5 million people have been displaced by the ongoing conflict in Yemen. ICRC distributed food, hygiene and household items to 35,000 people in Al-Hashwah and Sahar districts of Saada, in …
In Myanmar, the ICRC works hard to re-establish contact between detainees and their families, regardless of what community they belong to. This is the story of two mothers in Rakhine state, Myanmar, …
19-10-2015 Damascus (ICRC/SARC) – The Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), together with the United Nations, have delivered lifesaving medical …
Jean Fiasse is a physiotherapist who is part of an ICRC surgical team in Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He is the last link in the hospital chain, but far from the least. With his …
The 11th edition of the seminar, organized by the ICRC and the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights , aimed to help lecturers teach and research contemporary IHL issues …
Jerusalem/Geneva (ICRC): The International Committee of the Red Cross urges the Israeli government to immediately halt plans for the punitive destruction of six private homes in the West Bank. The …
A selection of films illustrating various aspects of the ICRC's work with detainees Working for the ICRC: Detention delegate ICRC visits to detainees. The how, the what and the why. ICRC visits to …
Under what conditions will the ICRC visit detainees? What does an ICRC visit look like? Who is in the visiting team? What does the ICRC do to improve the situation of detainees? Under what conditions …
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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.
