Even if the Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most ratified human rights convention in the world, ICRC's president Mirjana Spoljaric stresses that much more needs to be done to protect …
Statement by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) following the meeting of the Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems of the Convention on Certain …
The business card contains the QR code to access the Childhood in Rubble: The Humanitarian Consequences of Urban Warfare for Children report. It can be used at events to signpost people directly to …
This leaflet is for parents of children undergoing a treatment for clubfoot. The Ponseti method is a serial casting method that needs a close monitoring. Parents will need guidance. This leaflet does …
Due to recurrent armed conflict and violence, the humanitarian needs of the affected communities in South Sudan remain high. From January to December 2022, the International Committee of the Red …
Less than ten months has passed after the last significant escalation, and once again, affected families in Gaza must begin to rebuild their lives. These communities have now lived through three …
In this report, the ICRC analyses the humanitarian consequences of hostilities in the urban environment and seeks to raise awareness among parties to conflict, especially civilian authorities, of the …
Sexual and gender-based violence is a global issue that affects millions of people, especially women and girls, and can have long-lasting physical, psychological and social consequences. However, …
Godiya lives at an internally displaced peoples camp in Adamawa state, northeast Nigeria since 2014 after her community in Madagali was affected by armed conflict. According to Godiya, "It has been …
Riak is a father of 10 children living in a camp designated for internally displaced people in Bentiu, Unity State. Being a breadwinner, Riak has been struggling for years to support three families – …
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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.
