Taboos surrounding sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) are often harmful to victims/survivors, hindering their recovery journeys and sometimes even their access to life-saving health care. It is …
10-08-2022 Geneva (ICRC) – Each new round of violence in the Gaza Strip and Israel sparks a crisis of hope, as the fighting revives and creates new trauma on both sides. Only political steps can …
The Analysis and Evidence team at the International Committee of the Red Cross , the International Federation of the Red Cross's Global Cash Transfer Programming Unit in collaboration with Norwegian …
Missing persons: the right to know In situations of armed conflicts and other situations affected by violence, countless families suffer great anguish when loved ones go missing. In Bougainville, …
Representatives of the Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) and the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development visited the District Sadar Hospital in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, on 17 July. The visit was …
During the first half of 2022, millions of Syrians have benefited from different vital services provided by the ICRC in cooperation with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) across the country. These …
The town of El Callao in Venezuela is famous not only for its carnival and brightly dressed madamas, but also for being the centre of the mining industry in the south of the country, and especially …
Statement by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) following the final 2022 session of the Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems of the Convention on …
A Social Media Contest co-organised by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Regional Delegation in Kuala Lumpur and the national headquarters of the Malaysian Red Crescent Society …
Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Five decades ago, States concluded the NPT to prevent the devastation that would be visited upon all humankind by a nuclear war. Today, the NPT remains a …
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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.
