14-12-2014 Juba / Geneva (ICRC/IFRC/SSRC) – It has been one year since the world's newest nation plunged into crisis. Millions of people have been affected and remain in serious need of basic help …
12-12-2014 As winter deepens, the ICRC is stepping up its activities in Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine to help people affected by the conflict. The organization had previously had to scale …
12-12-2014 In the days after Typhoon Hagupit (Ruby) hit central Philippines, the ICRC sent several teams into the area to assess the damage. They found some infrastructure and livelihoods damaged …
12-12-2014 Thirty-three surgeons from different parts of Libya have just concluded a two-day training course supported by the ICRC in surgery on weapon-wounded patients. A further 15 surgeons have …
Join us for a special event in Canberra to mark the centenary of the International Tracing Agency for Prisoners-of-War and 100 years of ICRC's humanitarian action in detention. Featuring …
Prolonged conflicts in Benghazi and the west of Libya have displaced tens of thousands of people inside the country. The ICRC has distributed emergency medical supplies to more than 20 hospitals and …
Statement United Nations, General Assembly, 69th session, Plenary, statement by the ICRC, New York, 11 December 2014. Improved coordination mechanisms, the development of guidelines and the adoption …
Many residents of eastern Ukraine who fled their homes because of the fighting have found temporary refuge in Crimea. Some have only what they could carry. These people need the most basic things: …
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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.
