06-05-2021 Gaza (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Palestinian Ministry of Endowments and Religious affairs (Awqaf) and the Ministry of Health in Gaza have joined …
Falmata’s story tells the deadly legacy of attacks on health care services in Nigeria and the importance of protecting key civilian infrastructure in armed conflict. Before Falmata and her family …
Statement by the International Committee of the Red Cross, delivered by Laetitia Courtois, Permanent Observer, to the Interactive Dialogue to commemorate and promote the International Day of …
A YEAR OF LOSS, DISRUPTION, SOLIDARITY AND HOPE One year on since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic , this newsletter provides an overview of the ICRC response across the Near and Middle East …
Meeting immediate needs and reaching remote communities for COVID-19 prevention and response In Papua New Guinea , the spread of COVID-19 is rapidly spiralling. Efforts to contain the pandemic are …
Joint statement signed by the Chair of Standing Commission, Mercedes Babé, IFRC President, Francesco Rocca, and ICRC president, Peter Maurer. Every year, 8 May marks World Red Cross and Red Crescent …
Religions, traditions and cultural practices influence the ways in which human remains are managed. In Islam, human dignity is a right given by God to all people, who are referred to in the Qur’an as …
03-05-2021 Geneva (ICRC) – Health-care providers and patients have suffered through thousands of attacks on health-care systems in the roughly five years since the UN Security Council demanded an end …
30-04-2021 The Colombian Red Cross, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) reaffirm the importance of …
The ICRC has been in Yemen since 1962 and has a permanent presence in several governorates. Since the outbreak of the armed conflict in Yemen in 2015, the ICRC has been assisting victims of armed …
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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.
