Delivered by Cordula Droege, Chief Legal Officer of the ICRC, at the Open Debate of the United Nations Security Council on "Artificial intelligence and international peace and security" in New York. …
Families of hostages have lived through a nightmare. Children, spouses, siblings, and parents have all waited anxiously, every day, for the release of their loved ones, or at minimum for news of …
Delivered by Mirjana Spoljaric, President of the ICRC, at the High-Level Ministerial Side Event: Humanitarian Diplomacy in Action — Collective Response to Crises in the Middle East, New York Thank …
On 23 September 2025, on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) signed a new multiyear Strategic …
Not a single house remains standing in Masoud village of Nurgal district following the devastating earthquake in Afghanistan’s remote Kunar region that claimed more than 2,200 lives last month. Of …
A mother’s journey from loss to reunion: Life has been a series of intense challenges for Aziza*, a woman from Kabul. Several years ago, she lost her husband to the armed conflict in Afghanistan and …
22-09-2025 The following is a statement attributable to ICRC’s president Mirjana Spoljaric ahead of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on the need for states to act on their commitment …
Opening remarks delivered by ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric at the launch ceremony of the Declaration for the Protection of Humanitarian Personnel in New York, 21 September 2025. Excellencies, …
Alarmed by widespread violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) in conflicts around the world and the resulting unconscionable human suffering, we, the leaders of Brazil, China, France, …
Communities in the Tigray region and the whole of northern Ethiopia suffered from a devastating war, from November 2020 until November 2022. Its scars and humanitarian consequences are still felt …
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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.
