The opening of a photo exhibition in Buenos Aires was the occasion for a panel discussion on the ICRC's work during the 1976-1983 dictatorship in Argentina. The exhibition, entitled War from the …
18-05-2015 Geneva/Juba (ICRC) – The ICRC fears that tens of thousands of civilians forced to flee new outbreaks of fighting in South Sudan will suffer from a lack of food and health care while on the …
There is one thing all of us in Nepal have struggled to do since 25th April: live with uncertainty. The hundreds of aftershocks that followed the 7.8 magnitude earthquake on that Saturday had been …
The ICRC produced this film in 1941, describing its work in favour of millions of prisoners of war, through its Geneva-based tracing …
19-05-2015 Manila (ICRC) – A new solar water-heating system, which was installed in Davao City Jail's kitchen with support from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), was inaugurated …
19-05-2015 Kuwait (ICRC) – The third International Forum for Humanitarian Action is meeting today in Doha to discuss how to make humanitarian work safer and more effective given the current …
Article by Yves Daccord, director-general of the ICRC, published on Alertnet - Thomson Reuters Foundation Even before the intensification of the Yemen conflict in recent weeks created a new …
The ICRC is sharing its experience and expertise in treating the war-wounded with a number of medical facilities in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a region devastated by …
For people fleeing the violence, and on the move, there are few opportunities for health care. Pregnant women have been forced to give birth in the most difficult of circumstances, sometimes obliged …
The armed conflict between Boko Haram and various armed forces is spreading from Nigeria into the surrounding countries of Niger, Cameroon and Chad. This is one of the worst humanitarian crises …
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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.
