A unique situation occurred today when doctors performed two operations at Tripoli's War Traumatology Training Centre (WTTC) run by the International Committee of the Red Cross. Richard Gosselin, a …
Speech given by Mr Peter Maurer, President of the ICRC, Fourth meeting of States on strengthening compliance with international humanitarian law, Geneva, 23 April 2015 We are gathered here today for …
The Lake Chad region is suffering a humanitarian crisis. Over a million of people have fled the conflict and are currently living under difficult conditions inside Nigeria. Others have moved to …
An ICRC-Philips innovation day was organized at the Philips Innovation center in Eindhoven to identify potential areas of collaboration in the fields of healthcare and lighting. Philips is the latest …
Nowhere is safe in Yemen, says Robert Mardini, the ICRC’s head of operations for the Near and Middle East, who is just back from a three-day visit to the city of Sana’a. Since violence escalated on …
A summary of the ICRC's activities in Eritrea between January and December 2014. FACTS & FIGURES ERITREA January - December 2014 The ICRC opened its office in Eritrea in 1998 and worked throughout …
For the first time since the Syria crisis began, an ICRC team has visited the districts of Yalda, Babila and Beit Sahem in Rural Damascus where more than 2,500 families have recently fled from …
Speech given by Ms Christine Beerli, Vice-President of the ICRC, 22 April 2015, Ypres, Belgium I am glad to be here with you today. We are here not only to commemorate the horrific use of chlorine …
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 …
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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.
