2024 Highlights Sexual Violence in South Sudan: A Key Humanitarian Concern. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) aims to prevent, reduce, and respond to sexual violence through direct …
Regional organizations can play a catalytic role in encouraging and supporting the implementation of international humanitarian law (IHL) at the domestic level. This page compiles reports that …
Riyadh, 24-25 February 2025 – Senior humanitarian leadership gathered from around the world recently in Saudi Arabia for the Fourth edition of the Riyadh International Humanitarian Forum (RIHF). …
The ongoing conflict in Sudan has had a devastating impact on millions of people across the country. Lives have been lost, families torn apart, and homes, livelihoods, and infrastructure have been …
32/F BDO Life Megaplaza, 358 Sen. Gil Puyat Ave., Makati City, Philippines Open-ended Communication The ICRC is looking for up to three writers who are interested in joining the organization as Donor …
24-03-2025 Gaza (ICRC): Today, an office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Rafah was damaged by an explosive projectile despite being clearly marked and notified to all …
Anti-personnel landmines do not discriminate. Buried in fields, footpaths and forests, they wait silently - sometimes for decades - until someone unknowingly steps on them. The result is often …
In 2019, around 270 residents from a remote village in Basilan province were forced to flee their homes due to armed clashes between government forces and a non-state armed group. They were fearful …
In an instant, dark clouds engulfed the sky, obscuring the scorching sun in Al-Hizamat, a small village near Afak district in Iraq's Diwaniyah Governorate. Rain was imminent. Almost. A few minutes …
Access to safe drinking water essential for life and health, yet it is estimated that 33 million people in Afghanistan face severe water shortage. This World Water Day, marked on 22 March, we look at …
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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.
