12-05-2025 Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today successfully facilitated the safe transfer of a hostage from Gaza to Israeli authorities. This operation …
Thirty-five outstanding nurses from 17 countries have been awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal, which recognizes exceptional courage and devotion to victims of armed conflict or natural disaster. …
09-05-2025 Geneva (ICRC) — As conflict rages in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), driving mounting death, injury, and destruction and forcing tens of thousands to flee across …
09-05-2025 Kinshasa (ICRC) – On 8 May 2025, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mirjana Spoljaric, concluded her first official visit to the Democratic Republic of …
On 8 May, the Movement celebrated 162 years of its humanitarian work at local and global level. The Hungarian Red Cross (HRC) commemorated the day in the Hungarian National Museum, the very location …
The ICRC’s Delegation in Athens closed at the end of 2024, after a decade of field operational presence in Greece. The evaluation of the ICRC Athens Delegation (2016-2024) assesses the relevance, …
Port-au-Prince, 8 May – On World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day, the Haitian National Red Cross Society, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Federation of Red …
By Jérémy Renaux, coordinator for the Protection of Family Links in Mexico and Central America for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). It wasn't until a few weeks ago, when my …
On May 8th of each year, the world marks the Red Cross and Red Crescent Day—a special occasion to appreciate the courage, compassion, and unwavering humanitarian commitment of the world’s largest …
8 May 2025 Every day, in communities around the world, the Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers and staff choose to stand on the side of humanity . On this 8 May, we pay tribute to their unwavering …
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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.
