Bangkok, 19 October 2022 – The ASEAN Committee on Disaster Management (ACDM), ASEAN Secretariat, and the International committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) co-organized the 4th edition of the ASEAN-ICRC …
27-10-2022 Bamako (ICRC) – The suffering of millions of people in Mali and the wider Sahel region is rooted in the deadly combination of conflict and the climate crisis. Caught between advancing …
Devastating crop losses. Parched land. Millions of dead and dying cattle, goats and camels. Starving and severely malnourished children. Rising global grain prices that force families to go hungry. …
The National Society Investment Alliance (NSIA) is a pooled funding mechanism, run jointly by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the International …
ICRC statement delivered on 21 October at the United Nations General Assembly Third Committee by Ian Macdonald, ICRC Humanitarian Affairs Advisor. Mr. Chair, The International Committee of the Red …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), together with Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), organized the national rounds of the 13th Henry Dunant Memorial Moot Court Competition on …
What are the international law and standards applicable during armed conflict? Organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), this Course on international humanitarian law (IHL) is …
25-10-2022 Addis Ababa (ICRC) – Many thousands of families are separated by conflict, violence, or natural disaster in Ethiopia. In nine months from January 2022, the International Committee of the …
According to the Global Report on Food Crises , armed conflict and other threats to security pushed 139 million people into acute food insecurity in 2021 – an increase of almost 40 million people …
22-10-2022 Bamako (ICRC) – The new president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, will be in Mali from 22 to 26 October in her first operational visit since …
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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.
