06-03-2023 Geneva (ICRC) – Survivors of the massive earthquake that struck northwest Syria one month ago face the prospect of devastating public health challenges after the quake further damaged the …
In most of the areas where we operate, which are suffering from a triple crisis of armed conflict, food insecurity and climate change, food systems are based on subsistence agriculture. In this …
03-03-2023 Port-au-Prince, March 3rd, 2023 (ICRC). As new flare ups of violence in Haiti cause more injuries and deaths, the Haitian Red Cross (HRC), the International Committee of the Red Cross …
Ahead of International Women’s Day, Mirjana Spoljaric, the first female president in the 160-year history of the International Committee of the Red Cross, spoke at Columbia University in New York …
03-03-2023 Statement by Patrick Youssef, ICRC Regional Director for Africa, on Tigray region at the United Nations Palais Briefing in Geneva. Good morning and thank you for your interest, I have just …
The ICRC has many decades of experience in prisons around the world. This gives the organization a unique understanding of prison visits and improvements to prison conditions. Over the years, there …
The following list provides a concise set of international humanitarian law (IHL) rules that armed groups can integrate into their operational guidance as a minimum standard. These rules are not an …
ICRC provided emergency assistance and sustainable programmes to displaced people and host communities to respond to the humanitarian consequences of the conflict. To help meet their urgent needs, we …
Dear Madam/Sir, The International Committee of the Red Cross is pleased to invite you to participate in an ICRC Request for Interest to identify key industry partners in the field of medical …
Speech given by Mirjana Spoljaric, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, at the 52nd Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva. ICRC President stressed that the International …
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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.
