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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Statement 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 …
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 …
23-04-2015 On 21 April, ICRC President Peter Maurer received an official delegation from Ukraine headed by President Petro Poroshenko. During the meeting, which took place at the ICRC's headquarters …
The last meeting in the consultation process facilitated by the ICRC and Switzerland pursuant to Resolution News release : Meeting of States on strengthening compliance with international …
Harare (ICRC) – Over 10,000 people at Chikurubi Prison Complex in the outskirts of Harare are now benefitting from an improved supply of clean water following the commissioning of repairs and …
The inmates, prison officers and officers' families who live at the complex face difficulties with their water supply. The ICRC initially responded to the water needs with the donation of a …
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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.
