Recent events around the world – including natural disasters, the pandemic and ongoing and new conflicts – have made international humanitarian action more critical and complex than ever. In these …
17-04-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – Over the last four days, 973 former detainees held in relation to the conflict in Yemen were repatriated to Yemen and Saudi Arabia by the International Committee of the Red …
At the request of the parties involved in the fighting in Yemen, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) facilitated mid-April 2023 the release and transfer of 973 people detained in …
16-04-2023 Khartoum (ICRC) – As clashes continue in Khartoum and other Sudanese cities, heavy gunfire and blasts are happening in the proximity of densely populated residential areas and civilian …
Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today began a multi-day humanitarian operation to transfer nearly 900 detainees held in relation to the conflict in Yemen. The …
A new ICRC/Norwegian Red Cross policy brief "Making Adaptation Work" presents how the humanitarian consequences of environmental degradation and climate change are aggravated by armed conflict in the …
The Libyan desert is a place of breathtaking beauty. Yet, for the people of Wadi Ataba, it has also been a place of struggle and hardship. For years, they have battled against the elements in search …
The ICRC's Regional Delegation for Mexico and Central America presented its Humanitarian Report 2022-2023, in which it warns of the profound humanitarian consequences associated with armed violence, …
A lack of running water was a daily reality for thousands of people in Roggee, a small town in Ethiopia`s Oromia region. For years, misery spread in the township as people struggled every day for a …
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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.
