29-03-2022 Geneva (ICRC) – As the international armed conflict in Ukraine enters its fifth week, the level of death, destruction and suffering that continues to be inflicted on civilians is abhorrent …
What is trauma? How can we responsibly work with people who come from sensitive backgrounds? How can communicators avoid triggering re-traumatisation of victims and survivors? How can we ensure we …
The ICRC Evaluation Strategy 2022-2024 provides a common understanding of the purpose for evaluation in the ICRC, and guides how evaluations are planned, managed, conducted, and used across the …
Parties to armed conflict rarely fight alone. We’ve seen this across the globe – the Philippines, Afghanistan, Yemen, the Caucasus, across Africa, and elsewhere. Whenever a partnership is formed, …
26-03-2022 Geneva (ICRC) - Over the past days, false information about the ICRC has been circulated that we must address, as it could have a major impact on people affected by the conflict in …
Geneva (ICRC) – Over 500 tons of medical supplies, food and relief items have arrived in Ukraine since the escalation of the crisis as the ICRC increases its assistance work to respond to …
25-03-2022 The Humanitarian Report is an annual account of the work of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, including support and …
Statement by the International Committee of the Red Cross in the United Nations Security Council Arria-Formula Meeting. Delivered by Ms. Micaela Serafini, Head of Health, ICRC. Thank you to the …
In a recent return to Mindat to help people displaced by fighting in Chin State, we saw communities helping each other – carrying food, providing shelter, sharing meals. But relying on others is not …
24-03-2022 Moscow (ICRC) – Peter Maurer, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), has completed a two-day visit to Moscow where he continued ongoing humanitarian …
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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.
