As digital technologies become more pervasive and part of our everyday lives, “connectivity” has moved from an enabler for faster and more efficient humanitarian action to a service that many people …
09-07-2021 Beijing, 9 July 2021 – The World Bank, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) recently launched a report titled ‘Joining Forces …
Digital technologies – how they are being used, by and against whom – are among the "new" realities that the humanitarian organizations have to factor into the design of their humanitarian response. …
The latest escalation which broke out in May 2021 in Gaza and Israel is one of the most intense hostilities that we, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), have witnessed in the region …
In Iran, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the ICRC, works to help families find their loved ones missing due to conflict, migration or natural disaster, as part of its Restoring Family …
The article was written by Carmen Garcia Duro What does "sustainability" mean for the ICRC? "Sustainability" is a commonly used word, and in the field of logistics, it is no exception. To dissect …
Adherence to the 1980 convention on certain conventional weapons and its protocols. ADVISORY SERVICE ON INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW ____________________________________ 1980 Convention on Certain …
Humanity in Action provides an at-a-glance guide to how we helped and protected victims of armed conflict and other violence in 2020. It provides facts and figures on our programmes around the world …
Living with absence is a painful reality for family members of thousands of people who have disappeared. In Brazil, the ICRC has observed the disappearance of people as a current reality, which has …
06-07-2021 Muscat/Kuwait: 06 July 2021 – The President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer conducted a series of meetings with high-level officials in Oman on 06 July …
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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.
