06-03-2023 Statement given by Véronique Christory, ICRC’s Senior Arms Control Adviser, at the Fourth substantive meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group on security of and in the use of information …
In 2022, the ICRC regional delegation for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay continued to respond to the humanitarian needs of the people and communities we help. The infographic below …
Northeast Nigeria is home to one of Africa’s largest cattle markets. For many affected by long-running conflict in the region, ensuring the health of livestock as a means of livelihood is vital. …
More than 33 million people across Pakistan were affected by catastrophic floods caused by unprecedented monsoon rains in 2022. Post-deluge, stagnant water, damage to homes and roads and disrupted …
06-03-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – Survivors of the massive earthquake that struck northwest Syria one month ago face the prospect of devastating public health challenges after the quake further damaged the …
In most of the areas where we operate, which are suffering from a triple crisis of armed conflict, food insecurity and climate change, food systems are based on subsistence agriculture. In this …
03-03-2023 Port-au-Prince, March 3rd, 2023 (ICRC). As new flare ups of violence in Haiti cause more injuries and deaths, the Haitian Red Cross (HRC), the International Committee of the Red Cross …
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 …
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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.
