In the first visit of its kind, the ICRC recently took eight members of its Corporate Support Group (CSG) to Jordan, so they could see the situation on the ground for themselves and discover how the …
Families of missing persons are finally able to renovate their run-down homes, thanks to loans from the ICRC and the Fuller Center for Housing Armenia. Seventy families have already taken advantage …
Interview with Emmanuelle Birraux, protection coordinator for the ICRC delegation in Ukraine, on visits to detainees The ICRC is visiting people detained on both sides in connection with the conflict …
Blue sky, white clouds, olive green, these words can hardly be associated with the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, which is plagued by conflict. You certainly wouldn't imagine the city had a …
I had read much about Alberto Cairo. A former lawyer from Italy who came to Afghanistan by chance, he's been working in Afghanistan for almost 25 years and runs the ICRC orthopaedic centre in Kabul. …
Semenovka, Ukraine, December 2014. Like many towns and villages in eastern Ukraine, Semenovka, a village near Sloviansk in Donetsk region, was badly damaged during fighting between May and July 2014. …
Statement Security Council open debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflict, statement by the Director of International Law and Policy of the ICRC On behalf of the International Committee …
What are the protection challenges and needs faced by women and girls in armed conflict and post-conflict settings? Helen Durham, head of Law and Policy at the International Committe of the Red …
The figures for 2014 speak volumes about the plight of Syrians and the consequent demands placed on humanitarian organizations like the ICRC. With no end to the current crisis in sight, the extreme …
As part of its effort to promote awareness and understanding of international humanitarian law (IHL), the ICRC delegation in Israel and the occupied territories works with academic institutions to …
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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.
