During the past year, the ICRC carried out a range of programmes and projects in Thailand, Cambodia, Viet Nam and Laos to benefit victims of violence and vulnerable people, including detainees and …
Tuvalu was a hive of activity on 1 March as the Tuvalu Red Cross Society (TRCS) celebrated its recognition as part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. The celebrations were …
In 2015, the ICRC continued to help hundreds of thousands of people in need of food, medical, and economic aid in Sudan. We provided aid in the form of seeds and equipment, access to safe drinking …
Interested in humanitarian activities and the ICRC career opportunities? Meet our Human Resources team and discuss your profile: 10th of March 2016 - online - Global Careers Fair 9th edition The …
A digital awareness campaign about the work of the ICRC has been unveiled at NATO's Maritime Command headquarters in London. The three-week project centred on the importance of respecting …
Although the fighting is abating between government forces and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People's Army (FARC-EP), the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) is continuing to …
Students in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Viet Nam have been putting their IHL skills to the test in a series of moot court competitions, where they play the role of prosecution or defence in a war …
There is no longer any doubt about the importance of women's work for the ICRC, but it has not always been so. For decades women were either under-represented or relegated to particular tasks. An …
Joint News Release, International Committee of the Red Cross and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne Geneva (ICRC / EPFL) – The Humanitarian Tech Hub is an ambitious research and …
Considerable attention has focused recently on the destruction of historic monuments in many of the world's armed conflicts. What is however not so widely realized is that in the event of armed …
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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.
