01-02-2025 Jerusalem (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today safely transferred three hostages out of Gaza to Israel, and 175 Palestinian detainees from Israeli detention …
The ongoing hostilities in Gaza, Israel and the Golan Heights have caused immense suffering. Civilians have been killed, injured, and taken hostage. Families have lost loved ones, homes, and access …
These courses will train engineers and technical staff to plan, implement and monitor technical programmes related to water, sanitation and energy, and will help them better understand the …
30-01-2025 Geneva (ICRC) –The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today facilitated the third stage of release operations, reuniting more families. “We are relieved that more people …
The ICRC harmful information response framework is intended to guide organizations in designing and implementing effective response strategies to the consequences of the spread of harmful information …
29-01-2025 New York (ICRC) – In a statement delivered to the UN General Assembly, the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mirjana Spoljaric, warned that “respect for …
28-01-2025 Kinshasa (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is alarmed by the devastating impact on the civilian population of ongoing armed clashes in and around the city of …
The following remarks were delivered by Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), on 28 January 2025 at a signature event convened by the president of the …
27-01-2025 Port Sudan (ICRC) — The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply alarmed by the recent surge in attacks on critical civilian infrastructure in Sudan. Attacks on power …
27-01-2025 Today we honour the memory of the millions who suffered and perished during one of humanity’s darkest chapters. On the 80th commemoration of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration …
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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.
