The ICRC has been present in Lebanon since 1967 providing assistance and protection to civilians affected by armed conflict, in close cooperation with the Lebanese Red Cross Society and the Palestine …
14-04-2015 With the completion of a new health facility, health care has become more accessible for displaced families – like the Paujani family – in Masepla transition site. CC BY-NC-ND / ICRC / R. …
15-04-2015 Geneva/Sanaa (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been denied access to the town of Maareb in central Yemen, where a large number of people are in urgent need …
16-04-2015 Beirut (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), together with the Lebanese Red Cross (LRC), is organizing a special photo exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of …
1976. Wounded civilians receive treatment in a field hospital. “One day we entered an area of a village that was caught in the middle of very heavy and continuous crossfire and we evacuated three …
"We don't have a lack of disasters in Africa." That was one observation made at the 4th Annual meeting of the Africa Society of Forensic Medicine, held in Nairobi, Kenya in March. That in part …
Over 100,000 people displaced by violence in north-east Nigeria will be receiving emergency aid from the ICRC this week. Some will already have received aid over the last three months. Others, …
Statement Speech given by Ms Christine Beerli, Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross at the Fourth Moscow Conference on International Security on 16 April 2015 in Moscow,. …
At the age of 56, Tatyana had to leave her house in Shakhtarsk, in Ukraine's Donetsk region. Fleeing from gunfire and shelling, she went to Krasnodar with her disabled husband. But it's hard to get …
A summary of the ICRC's activities in South Sudan since the beginning of the emergency in mid-December 2013 to the end of February 2015. This month's theme: Providing food to the most vulnerable …
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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.
