Since mid-2014, the ICRC and the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) have been working together on a community-based livelihood support programme to help the most vulnerable households in the …
United Nations, General Assembly, 70th session, Third Committee, item 65 of the agenda, statement by the ICRC, New York, November 2015. General discussion on the Report of the United Nations High …
General debate on the Comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping operations in all their aspects. United Nations, General Assembly, 70th session, Fourth Committee, item 56 of the …
08-11-2015 Kiev / Donetsk – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) held a round-table discussion on 7 November in Donetsk with key stakeholders on searching for dead bodies and on …
The conflict in north-eastern Nigeria has left thousands of women widowed . Lacking a formal education, many have been reduced to begging and are unable to feed their children . Working with local …
The continuous fighting and constant insecurity in Syria have affected all aspects of daily life, with millions of displaced and vulnerable people across the country depending on aid deliveries, and …
09-11-2015 Bujumbura / Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is extremely concerned by the humanitarian consequences of the violence in Burundi. It calls on all parties …
On 18 October the government of Colombia and the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) announced that they would be taking a wide range of measures to find missing people. The aim is to provide …
10-11-2015 Geneva / Sana'a – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is appalled by the continuing attacks on health care facilities in Yemen, the latest of which took place in the city …
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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.
