13-10-2025 Jerusalem/Tel Aviv (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today facilitated a safe return of 20 hostages to Israeli authorities and 1,808* Palestinian detainees to …
Position paper by the International Committee of the Red Cross To support current international efforts to regulate autonomous weapon systems (AWS), the ICRC has prepared this position paper to …
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 …
Over the last few years, there has been increased recognition of the urgent need to strengthen climate action in places enduring armed conflict and other fragile settings, as reflected in the COP28 …
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 …
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. …
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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.
