An ICRC photo exhibition has given Russian MPs a unique look at 200 years of war and the role of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. The exhibition featured over 60 rare photos from the archives …
The Use of Weapons in Modern Conflicts: Humanitarian Aspects conference was recently held in St Petersburg, and co-organised by the ICRC and the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Member Nations of …
… Displaced Ukrainian children in southern Russia have received back-to-school kits from … displaced from eastern Ukraine to southern Russia. For their parents, this means …
The ICRC's new Moscow Humanitarium is to provide a forum for discussions and research on humanitarian issues. This centre will serve as a regional platform for discussing international humanitarian …
… conference held recently in St Petersburg, Russia. Marking 70 years since the end of the … correspondents and legal practitioners from Russia, eastern Europe, Central Asia and across … Ilushchenko is chief of the Legal Unit at Russia's Emercom National Crisis Management …
… flowing out of the East of Ukraine into Russia due to the ongoing conflict . Many of … these refugees settled down in the South of Russia. For the past three years, the ICRC, …
The ICRC has returned to Poland in 2022 to contribute to the humanitarian response for people fleeing the international armed conflict in Ukraine. Our main concern is the protection of people …
… Red Crescent national societies in Ukraine, Russia and elsewhere, had helped 8,000 families … or in-person visits from families from both Russia and Ukraine looking for their missing … accordance with the Geneva Conventions, both Russia and Ukraine authorities have set up …
… As the international armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine continues, the use of …
… mark two years since the escalation of the Russia-Ukraine armed conflict, people affected … and the National Information Bureaus of Russia and Ukraine, although more remains to be …
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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.
