There are more than 100 armed conflicts in the world today. The suffering caused by these conflicts, combined with climate shocks and rising food and energy prices, will make 2023 a year of vast …
Geneva (ICRC) – Humanitarian needs in dozens of countries from Yemen to Somalia, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo are rising, a pattern that the International Committee of the Red …
A regional workshop on climate change and protection of environment, focusing on the intersections between international humanitarian law (IHL) and Islamic perspectives, hosted by the ICRC in Amman, …
Nadezhda and her husband Vasily are from the village of Blizhneye, in the Donetsk region. They were school sweethearts who have been married for many years. This year, on a March evening, they were …
Statement Keynote speech by Nils Melzer, Director of International Law, Policy and Humanitarian Diplomacy on the occasion of the launch of the International Review of the Red Cross' double-edition …
Statement At a moment in history when the worst has become too easily imaginable, ICRC's President Mirjana Spoljaric urges all states to stick to their common legal obligation to respect and ensure …
Decades of conflict, insecurity, climate-related phenomena, and natural disasters have affected the overall health indicators in Somalia, most of which score very low. An extreme drought caused by …
The speakers, participants, and guests of the 2nd Asia-Pacific Police Colloquium. From 28 November to 1 December, the ICRC jointly organized the 2nd Asia-Pacific Police Colloquium with the …
Wheelchair basketball training, one of the main activities promoting social inclusion of people with disabilities under the Physical Rehabilitation Programme of the International Committee of the Red …
25-11-2022 The Department of International Relations and Cooperation and the International Committee of the Red Cross jointly hosted the 21st Annual Regional Seminar on the Implementation of …
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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.
