19-12-2022 As the AU marks its 20th anniversary, there are still challenges in adhering to IHL norms and principles regardless of the positive progress in putting in place applicable frameworks. In …
Marie, a mother of four, is an asylum seeker from the DRC, she fled her home city of Goma in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo following an attack. She was separated from her biological family …
The third episode of "The Humanitarian Podcast", featuring Muhammad Iqbal, disability inclusion adviser of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Pakistan, explores how people with …
For over a decade, the EU has made respect for International Humanitarian Law (IHL) a cornerstone of its external relations approach and developed a set of guidelines (EU Guidelines on Promoting …
More than 20,000 migrants are believed to have gone missing between 2014 and 2019 while trying to cross to Europe. An ICRC report entitled Counting the Dead reveals that only 13 per cent of their …
A medico-legal system and forensic services assessment serves to contextualize not only the ICRC’s humanitarian forensic action on behalf of the separated, the missing and the deceased, but also the …
15-12-2022 Geneva (ICRC) – The family members of 11 people who were missing in connection with the armed conflict of 1992–1993 in Abkhazia were informed that their loved ones were positively …
On the 14th of December 2022, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) formally opened a newly constructed dormitory annexed to the Physical Rehabilitation Centre of Benghazi, east of …
Each year the ICRC Regional Delegation for the Gulf Cooperation Countries conducts activities across Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. The ICRC works to promote and ensure …
The day Mariel Havana has long been waiting for is finally here. After years of struggle, her village, Kasapa II in Agusan del Sur, Philippines, now has its own clinic where residents can seek …
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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.
