Despite its prohibition in international law, sexual violence in conflict remains a brutal reality. Unfortunately, it remains widespread and prevalent during armed conflicts and other situations of …
16-06-2022 On Friday 17 June, Ireland will present the draft Political Declaration on Strengthening the Protection of Civilians from the Humanitarian Consequences Arising from the Use of Explosive …
“You only leave home when home won’t let you stay”, is a poignant line from Warsan Shire’s popular poem titled “Home” that aptly captures the reality of thousands of families from Tawergha in …
The families of 80 people from the community of Accomarca in Ayacucho, who went missing almost four decades ago during the internal conflict in Peru that lasted from 1980 to 2000, were finally able …
It has been a decade since intercommunal violence began causing waves of displacement in Rakhine State, Myanmar – disrupting lives and livelihoods for thousands of people. COVID-19 and the military …
From 5 to 9 June 2022, over 60 senior police officers from more than 45 countries came together in Amman, Jordan, to participate in a high-level workshop on international rules and standards …
Update: 24 June 2022 What happened? On January 18 we determined that the personal data on more than 515,000 people worldwide was accessed by hackers. They did so through a cyber-attack on the servers …
Geneva, 13 June 2022 – Leaders of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement will gather next week in Geneva, Switzerland to explore ways in which the world’s largest humanitarian network …
Thousands of children from different countries continue to be stranded in camps in Syria and Iraq in very harsh conditions. Meanwhile, some others have made their way back home and are trying to …
Education is a fundamental human right and an essential public service. It is also one of the first services affected by armed conflict, disaster or other emergencies, and one of the last to receive …
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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.
