12-10-2023 A statement from Fabrizio Carboni, the regional director for the Near and Middle East for the International Committee of the Red Cross. Geneva (ICRC) – The human misery caused by this …
Jeanne Egger – the ICRC’s first female delegate after the Second World War – passed away in September 2023. “I found it hard to live without a commitment to work or to a person you want to help.” …
Buom Kobuong Gatduop used to live an active life as a freelance journalist. He was a volunteer at a humanitarian organization, and an active member of his community. Sadly, all this changed after he …
10-10-2023 Port-au-Prince (ICRC) – Extreme levels of armed violence in Haiti are preventing an increasing number of people from accessing essential services like health care. Many health facilities …
10-10-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – The recent violence in Israel and Gaza is at a level we have not seen in many years and has the potential to escalate dramatically, causing even more pain and anguish on …
The hostilities that broke out Saturday 7 October are at a level that we have not seen in many years. They have the potential to cause even more suffering to civilians on both sides. At this crucial …
Yang-yang Subay remembers the time when conflict broke out in her village and she had to flee for her life along with her family and 185 other people in March 2022. All they wanted was a place they …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has an exclusively humanitarian mission to protect the lives and dignity of people affected by armed conflict and other violence, often working …
Geneva (ICRC): The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is extremely concerned by the alarming intensification of armed violence in Israel and the occupied territories this morning. The …
In the rocky and hard to reach villages of Sagal and Koransa, north of Adamawa State in Nigeria, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Nigerian Red Cross (NRCS) have been …
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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.
