In the first half of 2021, the ICRC offices in Baku and Barda continued its activities to deliver effective humanitarian response in relation to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict . During the first six …
One of the greatest challenges Palestinians face in the occupied Palestinian territories is climate change. Several climate-change trends are expected to intensify throughout the West Bank in the …
17-08-2021 The ICRC is relieved to see Kabul avoid what could have been devastating urban warfare, but we remain mindful of the thousands of civilians wounded and displaced in recent fighting in …
Facts and figures: January to June 2021 In the first half of 2021, the ICRC's humanitarian activities mainly focused on responding to the humanitarian crisis caused by the fighting in northern …
16-08-2021 Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has begun a second phase of forensic work to identify Argentine soldiers buried on the Falklands Islands (Malvinas). The …
16-08-2021 Port Moresby (ICRC) – The ICRC detention team participated in a conference organised by PNG Correctional Services (CS), this week 16 – 20 August in Port Moresby. The conference brought …
Tbilisi (ICRC) – The family members of five people who were unaccounted for in connection with the 1992–1993 armed conflict in Abkhazia have been informed that their loved ones were identified with …
The article was written by the ICRC Malaysia’s Legal Adviser, Aisya Abdul Rahman Along with 196 other countries, Malaysia is a state party to the four Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 that form …
Of the 25 countries most vulnerable to climate change, 14 are in conflict. Climate change and conflict make a devastating mix. Climate change exacerbates existing social and economic factors that may …
The rules of war, or international humanitarian law (as it is known formally) are a set of international rules that set out what can and cannot be done during an armed conflict. The main purpose of …
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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.
