Statement Ahead of International Women’s Day, Mirjana Spoljaric, the first female president in the 160-year history of the International Committee of the Red Cross, spoke at Columbia University in …
03-03-2023 Statement by Patrick Youssef, ICRC Regional Director for Africa, on Tigray region at the United Nations Palais Briefing in Geneva. Good morning and thank you for your interest, I have just …
The ICRC has many decades of experience in prisons around the world. This gives the organization a unique understanding of prison visits and improvements to prison conditions. Over the years, there …
The following list provides a concise set of international humanitarian law (IHL) rules that armed groups can integrate into their operational guidance as a minimum standard. These rules are not an …
ICRC provided emergency assistance and sustainable programmes to displaced people and host communities to respond to the humanitarian consequences of the conflict. To help meet their urgent needs, we …
Dear Madam/Sir, The International Committee of the Red Cross is pleased to invite you to participate in an ICRC Request for Interest to identify key industry partners in the field of medical …
Statement Speech given by Mirjana Spoljaric, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, at the 52nd Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva. ICRC President stressed that the …
In 2012, many people from the northeast Nigerian town of Banki were forced to leave due to conflict. Among them was Bashir*. "Today brings more joy to me and my wife than the day he was born". These …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Papua New Guinea works with communities impacted by tribal fighting. We have been working alongside the Papua New Guinea Red Cross Society in …
Eli is 14 years old. She lives in Hela Province in PNG's Highlands and dreams of growing up to be someone. But these dreams are interrupted by fighting and violence. For over a year, the fighting in …
Try one of the following resources:
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.
