The ICRC and Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) jointly delivered emergency relief supplies to internally displaced people (IDPs) as a result of the fighting in Tigray region. The emergency relief …
09-03-2021 The Regional Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross believes that the pandemic poses an additional challenge to populations that have been impacted by violence and …
09-03-2021 Bangui – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has sent an aid convoy from Cameroon to the Central African Republic (CAR) with 135 tonnes of food – enough to feed almost …
As the world faces more frequent and intense crises - driven in part by climate change, political and social conflict, cyber-attacks, and disease outbreak - humanitarians are working to protect …
Aya Hajajreh & Her Mother – COVID-19 Nurse Aya Hajajreh, 28, is a nurse in the COVID-19 ward in Al-Maqassed Hospital in Jerusalem. During the peak of the pandemic, Aya, six-months pregnant, insisted …
Call for comments The ICRC Missing Persons Project, launched in 2018, is currently developing a set of guiding principles on interaction with families of missing migrants. We invite all interested …
This year, in celebration of International Women's Day, we asked some of our incredible colleagues to share their wisdom and experience with us: " What advice would you give to your younger self? " …
06-03-2021 Today, under the umbrella of the Tripartite Commission nine human remains including a Saudi citizen, among the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia missing persons list, gone missing during the …
The search for ways to improve our collective response has led the World Bank, UNICEF and the ICRC to publish a new report today called, “Joining Forces to Combat Protracted Crises: Humanitarian and …
05-03-2021 Ouagadougou (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is alarmed that acts of armed violence in Burkina Faso continue to target civilians, the sick, health-care workers …
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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.
