Statement The ICRC will be participating, as an expert observer, in the Fourth Intergovernmental Expert Group Meeting on the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (SMR) that will take …
Statement ICRC president Peter Maurer addresses the Human Rights Council in Geneva I am honored to address the Human Rights Council (HRC) for the third time and would like to take this opportunity to …
Statement Speech given by Mr Peter Maurer President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Mr. President, High Commissioner, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am honored to address the Human Rights …
The ICRC physical rehabilitation project in Bangladesh is creating a national cricket team consisting of people with disabilities. The team would represent Bangladesh during a five-nation tournament …
Article by Yves Daccord, director-general of the ICRC and chair of the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response (SCHR), Geneva, published on Humanitarian Practice Network (HPN) …
Geneva (ICRC) - In the margins of the 28th regular session of the Human Rights Council, ICRC President Peter Maurer met EU High Representative / Vice-President Federica Mogherini. It was the first …
03-03-2015 Manila (ICRC) – Thousands of people have fled their homes as fighting between government security forces and armed groups escalates in Maguindanao province, in central Mindanao. The number …
Over the past year the ICRC has been able to reach more people in Yemen thanks to regular dialogue on humanitarian issues with the Yemeni authorities, community leaders, beneficiaries and actors on …
While the ICRC was working on the publication of the first Commentaries to the newly adopted Geneva Conventions of 1949, it sent National Societies and Governments five "Information Notes", entitled …
04-03-2015 The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is deeply concerned about the recent spate of attacks against its volunteers and staff. In the last month alone, two volunteers and …
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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.
