22-04-2015 Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross has marked the 100th anniversary of a World War I battle, where deadly chlorine gas was used on thousands of troops, by …
The ICRC in Afghanistan recently helped Suliman, a young boy from Helmand province, reunite with his father after a long separation. In collaboration with the members of the Red Cross and Red …
21-04-2015 Geneva (ICRC) – Humanitarian aid has today been successfully delivered into north-east Syria, in an operation jointly organized by the Turkish Red Crescent Society (TRCS), the Syrian Arab …
Why does the ICRC talk to those whom States call "terrorists"? And why is it so important that States not see our contacts with such groups as criminal? ICRC vice-president Christine Beerli answered …
Bawa, Guéckédou, Guinea. Guinean Red Cross and ICRC members prepare to distribute household items to families affected by Ebola. In total, 15 local Red Cross volunteers took part in the distribution …
Vitala Ekwas leads a small community of people displaced by the violence plaguing northern Nigeria. Aid from the ICRC and the Nigerian Red Cross is making life a little easier, and water is …
Hélène Plenneveaux is deputy head of the ICRC's Nigeria delegation. She explains some of the obstacles encountered in getting aid to the thousands of displaced people in northern Nigeria. The people …
Hafeesu Adamu and Ummu-Salma spent several days in the forest with their children before finding refuge in Yola. They fled with only the clothes they stood up in. Aid distributed in mid-April by the …
"An airstrike destroys the paediatric and premature baby section of a hospital killing, among others, five babies and three mothers. A health-care centre occupied by security forces for days, …
Red Cross Volunteers sensitize the community on health issues in Guinea. Health-care workers contribute to ensure that communities, weapon bearers, authorities and other stakeholders accept and trust …
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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.
