The following keynote address was delivered by ICRC president Mirjana Spoljaric at the 20th Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society in Paris on 6 November 2025. Dear colleagues and friends, I am …
06-11-2025 Kinshasa (ICRC) – Conflict and armed violence in Ituri Province in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are trapping civilians in a murderous cycle, with thousands …
We have been present in Israel and the occupied territories (including the occupied Palestinian territory) since 1967 and have offices in Tel Aviv, the occupied Golan Heights, Gaza, and across the …
At this year’s Paris Peace Forum , global leaders and humanitarian experts gathered to confront a pressing question: how can international humanitarian law (IHL) continue to protect civilians amid a …
Keynote address for report launch on 4 November 2025 delivered remotely by Gilles Carbonnier, Vice President of the ICRC Pictured (left to right): Marco Roscini (Professor of International Law, the …
The following statement was delivered by ICRC president Mirjana Spoljaric at the opening of the Senior Workshop on the International Rules Governing Military Operations (SWIRMO) on 1 November 2025. …
Recent armed conflicts have seen civilians encouraged to collect militarily-relevant information through smart-phone; unprecedented numbers of civilian hacker groups (often referred to as …
04-11-2025 4th International Conference for Families of Missing Persons – Geneva, 11–13 November 2025 Geneva, 4 November 2025 – From Colombia to Sri Lanka, the Balkans to the Sahel, countless …
This is the story of two towns caught in the armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine. It’s the story of people who still live there, and how shifting frontlines have made access to water, …
Recent armed conflicts have seen civilians encouraged to collect militarily-relevant information through smart-phone; unprecedented numbers of civilian hacker groups (often referred to as …
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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.
