Thousands of families across Ukraine endure uncertainty about the fate of their loved ones – missing or captured since the beginning of the armed conflict. For these families, each day brings both …
13-10-2025 Jerusalem/Tel Aviv (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has started a multi-phase operation to facilitate the release and transfer of hostages and detainees as part …
The speech was delivered by Balthasar Staehelin, personal envoy of the president, on behalf of Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) at the Global …
During a visit to Monaco by Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Government of Monaco and the ICRC reaffirmed their partnership and commitment to …
10-10-2025 Addis Ababa (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has intensified its humanitarian response in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, where escalating conflict has caused …
The Global Initiative to Galvanize Political Commitment to International Humanitarian Law was launched in September 2024 by Brazil, China, France, Jordan, Kazakhstan and South Africa, together with …
L’Initiative mondiale visant à revitaliser l’engagement politique en faveur du droit international humanitaire (DIH) a été lancée en septembre 2024 par l’Afrique du Sud, le Brésil, la Chine, la …
10-10-2025 Geneva (ICRC) –The Assembly, the governing body of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), announced today that it has elected Jürg Lauber as the ICRC's next vice-president. …
Climate change is an existential threat to humanity. Warming of the atmosphere, oceans and land – driven by human activity – is causing climate variations and extremes throughout the world. More than …
10-10-2025 The following is a statement attributable to the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric, on the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas. Geneva …
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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.
